Tom Wolfe (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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Tom Wolfe became known as one of the most original and influential of the New Journalists who came to popular attention during the mid-1960’s. His collections of essays and original drawings on contemporary American lifestyle include The Pump House Gang (1968), Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970), and Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine, and Other Stories, Sketches, and Essays (1976). In these and other works, Wolfe skewered the foibles of a period he named “the me decade.” He addressed what he saw as the...
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