Tom Wolfe is 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 Book Foundation's 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in NewYork City.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is not simply the best book on the
hippies, it is the essential book...the pushing, ballooning heart
of the matter
*New York Times*
A life-changer, a rabble-rouser, a mind-blower, a gathering of the
tribes, a call to arms, a manifesto for a new society, a car repair
manual, a fly-on-the-paisley-patterned-wall account of a cultural
revolution – a masterpiece!
*Jarvis Cocker*
Electrifying
*San Francisco Chronicle*
An amazing book... A book that definitely gives Wolfe the edge on
the nonfiction novel
*The Village Voice*
Every word seems placed with a care and a skill of contrivance... A
major journalistic contribution to the future analysis of our own
and America's strange period of this century
*Guardian*
You only had to look at him… or read such books as The Bonfire of
the Vanities and The Right Stuff to know that Tom Wolfe was like no
other
*The Scotsman*
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*
Effortlessly, elegantly, Tom Wolfe bestrode both fiction and
non-fiction… a style at once objective, subjective, and
hallucinatory
*Independent*
[Tom Wolfe’s] gleeful use of punctuation and italics, along with
entertaining asides and neologisms that often quickly cemented
themselves into the English lexicon, helped Wolfe stand out from
other journalists
*Guardian*
[Wolfe] made literature fun and bores don’t like fun
*The Catholic Herald*
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