Bøger af Tom Wolfe

Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in an accident in the Bronx. Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians and clergy close in on him, determined to bring him down.

Tom Wolfe's genre-defining magical mystery tour through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth anniversary. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JARVIS COCKERIn the summer of 1964, author Ken Kesey and his Merry Band of Pranksters set out on an awesome social experiment like no other.

With an anthology edited by Tom Wolfe and E. W. Johnson

A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now.As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay-with our hero, officer Nestor Camacho, on board-Tom Wolfe is off and running headlong into the only city in the world where people from a different country with a different language and a different culture have taken over at the ballot box. This melting pot is full of hard cases who just won't melt, damn it: a Cuban mayor; a black police chief; a hot young reporter and a timid editor of the Miami Herald, both WASPs who went to Yale; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist who keeps his lovely Latina nurse, Magdalena, in his bed, and his star patient, a porn-addicted billionaire, on a string; a status-addled Haitian professor who thinks he's really French and wants his pale-skinned daughter to "e;pass"e; and his Creole-spouting son to be quiet. Then there are the clueless collectors who "e;See it! Like it! Buy it!,"e; spending tens of millions per minute on de-skilled art at Miami Art Basel; black drug dealers colliding with the Cuban cops; Columbus Day Regatta "e;spectators"e; who only have eyes for the annual apr s-race orgy; and "e;Active Adult"e; condos full of yenta-heavy ex-New Yorkers, not to mention a nest of shady Russians.Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous bestselling novels, Back to Blood is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times.

En svimlende beretning om vovehalsene i det amerikanske rumprojekts første, farlige år. Om testpiloterne og astronauterne, som efter nattens druk, hor og biljagter sætter sig bag raketflyets styrepind – og havarerer, eksploderer... eller sætter ny højderekord! Om piloternes koner, der skal leve med angsten. Om pressen, der svælger ligeligt over katastrofe og succes. Om det stof, der gør en pilot til en mand og en astronaut til en helt – kold marv."Kold marv" blev filmatiseret i 1983 med titlen "The Right Stuff" (på dansk "Mænd af den rette støbning"). Filmen vandt fire Academy Awards og fortæller historien om de banebrydende Mercury astronauter Shepard, Grissom, Glen, Carpenter, Schirra, Cooper og Slayton, de første amerikanere, som, ti år efter at testpiloten Chuck Yaeger brød lydmuren, sætter nye højde- og fartrekorder i primitive rumfartøjer."Tom Wolfe er toppen blandt USAs forfattere" - Kristeligt DagbladTom Wolfe (f. 1931) var en af pionererne inden for den såkaldte new journalism, men han er ikke mindre kendt for sine romaner, hvor han med eminent satire spidder den moralske hulhed bag den amerikanske pengekultur. På dansk er bl.a. udkommet "Kold marv", "På krogen" "En stor mand" og ikke mindst hans største succes, bestsellerromanen "Forfængelighedens bål", der har fået status som en moderne klassiker.

Forfængelighedens bål er en skånselsløs satire over den amerikanske skinverden, som medierne og magthaverne i fællesskab har skabt. Baggrunden er New York, og hovedpersonen er en ung børsmægler, der tilfældigt bliver offer for systemet.

"Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review), The Right Stuff is the basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name and the 8-part Disney+ TV mini-series.From "America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. "Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers, that made The Right Stuff a classic.

As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay - with officer Nestor Camacho on board - Tom Wolfe is off and running.

The setting is Atlanta, Georgia — a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta conglomerate king whose outsize ego has at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 29,000 acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife, and a half-empty office complex with a staggering load of debt.Meanwhile, Conrad Hensley, idealistic young father of two, is laid off from his job at the Croker Global Foods warehouse near Oakland and finds himself spiraling into the lower depths of the American legal system.And back in Atlanta, when star Georgia Tech running back Fareek “the Canon” Fanon, a homegrown product of the city’s slums, is accused of date-raping the daughter of a pillar of the white establishment, upscale black lawyer Roger White II is asked to represent Fanon and help keep the city’s delicate racial balance from blowing sky-high.Networks of illegal Asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real estate syndicates — Wolfe shows us contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most admired novelist. Charlie Croker’s deliverance from his tribulations provides an unforgettable denouement to the most widely awaited, hilarious and telling novel America has seen in ages — Tom Wolfe’s most outstanding achievement to date.

Reissued for today's reader with a redesigned cover by the renowned artist Seymour Chwast, Tom Wolfe trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" (The Washington Post).What has become of art?In his dazzling and controversial book The Painted Word, Tom Wolfe explores this question and more as he investigates early trends in Modern Art and critiques the critics who dominated the art world during the 1960s and '70s. Wolfe addresses the scope of Modern Art, from its founding days as Abstract Expressionism through its transformations to Pop, Op, Minimal, and Conceptual. He bring into question the work of famous avant-garde artists like Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, and others. With gorgeous, pointed prose, Wolfe investigates what has become of Modern Art and examines the control that art critics have over the art world at large.Elegant, hilarious, and devastating, The Painted Word presents a sharp critique of the modern state of art.

"Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review), The Right Stuff is the basis for the 1983 Oscar-winning film of the same name and the eight-part Disney+ miniseries.Reissued for today's reader with a cover by the renowned artist Seymour Chwast and an introduction by the New York Times bestselling author Robin Sloan.What does it take to be an astronaut?First published in 1979, Tom Wolfe's astounding book The Right Stuff answers this question and more, exploring both the mental and the physical sacrifices that must be made by individuals entering space. Wolfe tells the stories of the pilots, engineers, and astronauts involved in Project Mercury (1958-1963), the United States' first human spaceflight program.A breathtaking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the heroism and courage of the first American astronauts to conquer space, The Right Stuff is a true American classic.

A sprawling collection of essays about the subcultures of the 1960s by Tom Wolfe, the revolutionary journalist and novelistWhen Tom Wolfe smashed his way onto the literary scene in 1965 with The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, he transformed reporting in American popular culture. For his next project, Wolfe traveled from La Jolla to London in search of new lifestyles. The result is The Pump House Gang (published simultaneously with The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test in 1968): a collection of essays that chronicles life at the end of the 1960s, written with all the panache and perceptiveness that made Wolfe one of our greatest American journalists.Running throughout The Pump House Gang is a central theme of Wolfe's writing: status. In pieces about Hugh Hefner, Natalie Wood, and a gang of affluent teenage surfers, among others, Wolfe discusses the 1960s phenomenon of retreating from conventional social hierarchies, which he calls "starting your own league." Dancers, motorcyclists, lumpen-dandies, and stay-at-homes-everybody's doing it. Except for die-hards in the crumbling old social worlds of New York and London, where the confusion is so great that nobody can tell whether this is really the path to the top they've taken or just the service elevator.Dazzlingly brilliant as a stylist, daringly provocative as a commentator, and always entertaining, in The Pump House Gang, Wolfe is thoroughly, completely himself.

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"This is a book that will be a sharp pleasure to reread years from now, when it will bring back, like a falcon in the sky of memory, a whole world that is currently jetting and jazzing its way somewhere or other." -NewsweekTom Wolfe raised the banner for his high-octane brand of New Journalism with The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, his first book of essays, which collects stories from corners of 1960s America that few had described before. With a thrilling flair for detail, Wolfe creates an indelible portrait of the era-from the burgeoning ersatz glamor of Las Vegas, to the hot-rodding world of car customizers, to a close-up look at the working lives of New York City doormen.These essays are a testament to Wolfe's unparalleled ability to capture the zeitgeist on the page, bringing it to life with colorful and unusual characters and an inimitable ear for a new kind of American idiom. The force and depth of his writing endures even sixty years after his debut, reaffirming, yet again, his role as a foundational figure in the development of a truly American school of language and journalism.

A sprawling collection of essays about the subcultures of the 1960s by Tom Wolfe, the revolutionary journalist and novelistWhen Tom Wolfe smashed his way into the literary scene in 1965 with The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, he transformed reporting in American popular culture. For his second book, Wolfe traveled from La Jolla to London in search of new lifestyles. The Pump House Gang is the result: a collection of essays that chronicles life at the end of the 1960s, written with all the panache and perceptiveness that made Wolfe one of our greatest American journalists.Running throughout The Pump House Gang is a central theme of Wolfe's writing: status. He discusses the 1960s phenomenon of retreating from conventional social hierarchies, which Wolfe calls "starting your own league." Surfers, motorcyclists, lumpen-dandies, and stay-at-homes-everybody's doing it. Except for die-hards in the crumbling old social worlds of New York and London, where the confusion is so great that nobody can tell whether this is really the path to the top they've taken or just the service elevator.Dazzlingly brilliant as a stylist, daringly provocative as a commentator, and always entertaining, in The Pump House Gang, Wolfe is thoroughly, completely himself.

The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech -- not evolution -- is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in the Kingdom of Speech.

A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay -- with officer Nestor Camacho on board -- Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist and his Latina nurse by day, loin lock by night-until lately, the love of Nestor's life; a refined, and oh-so-light-skinned young woman from Haiti and her Creole-spouting, black-gang-banger-stylin' little brother; a billionaire porn addict, crack dealers in the 'hoods, "de-skilled" conceptual artists at the Miami Art Basel Fair, "spectators" at the annual Biscayne Bay regatta looking only for that night's orgy, yenta-heavy ex-New Yorkers at an "Active Adult" condo, and a nest of shady Russians. Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous bestselling novels, Back to Blood is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times.

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.Este realto provocó la prohibición de las obras de Wolfe en la Alemania hitleriana. En él, el autor nos muestra crudamente el drama de los perseguidos e inadaptados en una sociedad controlada por la burocracia oficial.Thomas Clayton Wolfe fue un novelista americano prolífico en la década de los años 20. Escribió cuatro novelas largas además de muchísimos relatos cortos. Sus obras se caracterizan por mezclar poesía con prosa, por ser ficción histórica e incluso en ocasión ficción biográfica. Los libros que escribió entre 1920 y 1940 reflejan la vida y cultura de Estados Unidos desde una perspectiva sensitiva y analítica.

The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. "e;A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theory of evolution."e; (Dwight Garner, New York Times)Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech--not evolution--is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in the Kingdom of Speech.

Charlie Croker er en hovedrig byggespekulant, hvis selvtillid er lige så stor som hans formue. Han er en del af det fineste selskab i Georgia, Atlanta, og er ikke til at skyde igennem. Det er i hvert fald tilfældet, indtil en række fejlslagne satsninger sender ham på hurtig nedtur. Nu handler det om at holde på pengene og ikke at lade nogen opdage, at den store mand er ved at falde."En stor mand" fortæller ikke bare om den skruppelløse rigmands storhed og fald, men også om en række andre skæbner i USA i slutningen af 1990‘erne. Til sammen tegner de et billede af den politiske og økonomiske situation i USA i slutningen af det tyvende århundrede.Tom Wolfe (f. 1931) var en af pionererne inden for den såkaldte new journalism, men han er ikke mindre kendt for sine romaner, hvor han med eminent satire spidder den moralske hulhed bag den amerikanske pengekultur. På dansk er bl.a. udkommet "Kold marv", "På krogen" "En stor mand" og ikke mindst hans største succes, bestsellerromanen "Forfængelighedens bål", der har fået status som en moderne klassiker.

Forfatteren til internationale romansucceser som "Forfængelighedens bål" og "En stor mand" præsenterer her en samling skarpe, engagerede og brillante essays: fra en tankevækkende beretning om Silicon Valley-industriens rødder i Midtvestens religiøse samfund til en ædende satire over det hæderkronede ugeblad The New Yorkers kulturelle forstening.Desuden bringes her for første gang i sin helhed kortromanen "Baghold ved Fort Bragg" om et skruppelløst tv-produktionshold fra New York på optagelse i North Carolina, hvor en bande sydstatsrekrutter har banket en homoseksuel soldat til døde.Man mærker, at Tom Wolfe er i sit rette element, når han med sylespids samfundskritisk pen analyserer moderne tiders sæder og skikke.Tom Wolfe (f. 1931) var en af pionererne inden for den såkaldte new journalism, men han er ikke mindre kendt for sine romaner, hvor han med eminent satire spidder den moralske hulhed bag den amerikanske pengekultur. På dansk er bl.a. udkommet "Kold marv", "På krogen" "En stor mand" og ikke mindst hans største succes, bestsellerromanen "Forfængelighedens bål", der har fået status som en moderne klassiker.

Charlotte Simmons er vokset op i en lille flække i North Carolinas bjerge. Her har hun været skolens superelev, og da et stipendium giver hende chancen for at studere på et af de mest velrenommerede amerikanske universiteter, synes hun, at alle hendes drømme er gået i opfyldelse.Men da hun ankommer til universitetet med sin beskyttede baggrund og tro på et højere fælles mål som den primære bagage, går det hurtigt op for hende, at hendes medstuderende har en noget anden opfattelse af, hvad studietiden skal bruges til.For bag de ærværdige akademiske mure har sport, fester, druk og sex fortrængt interessen for studierne, ligesom udseende, mærkevarer og penge tillægges større vægt end gode karakterer. Og da også Charlotte gør sine erfaringer med denne nye verden, tvinges hun ud i et opgør med troen på sig selv og sine medbragte værdier.Tom Wolfe (f. 1931) var en af pionererne inden for den såkaldte new journalism, men han er ikke mindre kendt for sine romaner, hvor han med eminent satire spidder den moralske hulhed bag den amerikanske pengekultur. På dansk er bl.a. udkommet "Kold marv", "På krogen" "En stor mand" og ikke mindst hans største succes, bestsellerromanen "Forfængelighedens bål", der har fået status som en moderne klassiker.

After critiquingΓÇöand infuriatingΓÇöthe art world with The Painted Word, award-winning author Tom Wolfe shared his less than favorable thoughts about modern architecture in From Bauhaus to Our Haus. In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth century architecture, Wolfe takes such European architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus art school founder Walter Gropius to task for their glass and steel box designed buildings that have influencedΓÇöand infectedΓÇöAmericaΓÇÖs cities.

An excellent book by a genius," said Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., of this now classic exploration of the 1960s from the founder of new journalism."This is a book that will be a sharp pleasure to reread years from now, when it will bring back, like a falcon in the sky of memory, a whole world that is currently jetting and jazzing its way somewhere or other."--Newsweek

Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style. "No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton" (The National Review)"A page-turner . . . Brilliant high comedy." (The New Republic)Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him, licking their chops and giving us a gargantuan helping of the human comedy, of New York in the 1980s, a city boiling over with racial and ethnic hostilities and burning with the itch to Grab It Now. Wolfe's novel is a big, panoramic story of the metropolis that reinforces the author's reputation as the foremost chronicler of the way we live in America. Adapted to film in 1990 by director Brian De Palma, the movie stars Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Morgan Freeman.