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In the essays that comprise the first part of this book, Tom Wolfe offers a provocative analysis of a phenomenon that convulsed the American literary landscape: the emergence of the so-called New Journalism — a movement which, according to the author, wrested the spotlight...

In his spellbinding first novel, Wolfe proves that he has the right stuff to write propulsively engrossing fiction. Both his cynical irony and sense of the ridiculous are perfectly suited to his subject: the roiling, corrupt, savage, ethnic melting pot that is New York...

The hell with it ...let chaos reign ...louder music, more wine ...All the old traditions are exhausted and no new one is yet established. All bets are off! The odds are cancelled! It's anybody's ballgame ...' Tom Wolfe introduces and exults in his generation's...