The Right Stuff von Wolfe, Tom

When the well-known wood carver, Tom Wolfe, turns his talents to a new medium the results are wonderful. The almost limitless medium of polymer clay and Tom's eye for character and caricature combine to produce some endearing and...

'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...

"The Right Stuff" von Tom Wolfe ist ein Sachbuch, das die Anfänge des US-amerikanischen Raumfahrtprogramms beleuchtet. Es konzentriert sich auf die Mercury Seven, die ersten Astronauten der NASA, und untersucht sowohl ihre beruflichen...

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...

In Hooking Up Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, observing the 'lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000' - everything from teenage sexual manners to how genetics and neuroscience are...

Tom Wolfe (1931-2018) was the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, I Am Charlotte Simmons and Back to Blood. He received the National...

The Painted Word

Back to Blood von Wolfe, Tom

Unter Strom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Die legendäre Reise von Ken Kesey und den Pranksters

"Der Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" von Tom Wolfe ist ein Sachbuch, das die Abenteuer von Ken Kesey und seiner Gruppe, den Merry Pranksters, in den 1960er Jahren beschreibt. Das Buch dokumentiert ihre Reise quer durch die USA in einem bunt...

"America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" (The Washington Post)Wolfe's style has never been more dazzling, his wit never more keen. He addresses the scope of Modern Art, from...