The kandy-kolored tangerine-flake streamline baby

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Sinopse

Tom Wolfe's debut collection of essays - a brilliant, form-bending dive into the future of America as it careened through the 1960s In 1965, Tom Wolfe dropped like a bomb onto the American literary scene with his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, an incandescent panorama of American counter-culture, its dances, bouffant hairdos, customised cars and rock concerts. Capturing the energy of the age in its portraits of Phil Spector, Cassius Clay, Las Vegas and the Nanny Mafia – as well as asking, why do doormen hate Volkswagens? – Wolfe’s flamboyant essay collection remains one of the great, revolutionary landmarks of modern non-fiction. 'Journalism, it is said, is the first draft of history.Nobody exemplifies the dictum better than Wolfe, the cultural observer and social critic par excellence' Daily Telegraph

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Autor: Tom Wolfe

Autor

TOM WOLFE

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, mais conhecido como Tom Wolfe, foi uma das figuras-chave do New Journalism americano e autor de mais de uma dúzia de livros, entre os quais A palavra pintada, A fogueira das vaidades, Um homem por inteiro, Eu sou Charlotte Simmons e Sangue nas veias. Nascido em Richmond, em 2 de março de 1930, Tom Wolfe faleceu em Nova York, aos 88 anos, em 14 de maio de 2018.