The kandy-kolored tangerine-flake streamline baby / Tom Wolfe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolfe, Tom, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States.

Popular culture--United States.

Popular culture.

Social status--United States.

Social status.

Genre:

Nonfiction.

Essays.

Physical Description:

xviii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Picador edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Picador, 2009.

Summary:

In his first book - a collection that launched its author as America's foremost entertainer with something to say-Tom Wolfe took a sharp-eyed look at the American scene of the early 1960s and zeroed in on the exotic forms of status-seeking that flourished across the country from New York to Los Angeles.

Contents:

1. The new culture-makers. Las Vegas (What?) Las Vegas (Can't hear you! Too noisy) Las Vegas!!!! ; Clean fun at Riverhead ; The fifth Beatle ; The Peppermint Lounge revisited ; The first typhoon of teen ; The kandy-kolored tangerine-flake streamline baby

2. Heroes and celebrities. The marvelous mouth ; The last American hero ; Loverboy of the bourgeoisie ; Purveyor of the public life ; The girl of the year

3. A metropolitan sketchbook. Old face, new fashions ; Teen-age male hairdos ; The sun-worshippers ; The zoo in Central Park ; The view in Central Park ; New York's beautiful people

4. Status strife and the high life. The Saturday route ; The Luther of Columbus Circle ; The new art gallery society ; The secret vice ; The nanny mafia

5. Love and hate, New York style. Putting Daddy on ; A Sunday kind of love ; The woman who has everything ; The voices of Village Square ; Why doormen hate Volkswagens ; The big league complex.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Hagen fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780312429126

0312429126

OCLC:

317929237

Publisher Number:

99935961787