📗 Libro en inglés HOOKING UP

FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX - 9780374103828

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Sinopsis de HOOKING UP

America''s maestro reporter/novelist gives America an MRI at the dawn of a new age. In "Hooking Up", Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, chronicling everything from the sexual manners and mores of teenagers to fundamental changes in the way human beings now regard themselves--thanks to the hot new fields of genetics and neuroscience--to the inner workings of television''s magazine-show sting operations. Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and that. Third base was oral sex. Home plate was going all the way. That was yesterday. Here in the Year 2000 we can forget about necking. Today''s girls and boys have never heard of anything that dainty. Today first base is deep kissing, now known as tonsil hockey, plus groping and fondling this and that. Second base is oral sex. Third base is going all the way. Home plate is being introduced by name. And how rarely our hooked-up boys and girls are introduced by name -as Tom Wolfe has discovered from a survey of girls'' File-o-Fax diaries, to cite but one of "Hooking Up''s" displays of his famed reporting prowess. Wolfe ranges from coast to coast chronicling everything from the sexual manners and mores of teenagers... to fundamental changes in the way human beings now regard themselves thanks to the hot new field of genetics and neuroscience. . . to the inner workings of television''s magazine-show sting operations. Printed here in its entirety is "Ambush at Fort Bragg," a novella about sting TV in which Wolfe prefigured with eerie accuracy three cases of scandal and betrayal that would soon explode in the press. A second piece of fiction, "U. R. Here," the story of a New York artist who triumphs precisely because of his total lack of talent, gives us a case history preparing us for Wolfe''s forecast ("My Three Stooges," "The Invisible Artist") of radical changes about to sweep the arts in America. As an espresso after so much full-bodied twenty-first-century fare, we get a trip to Memory Mall. Reprinted here for the firsttime are Wolfe''s two articles about "The New Yorke"r magazine and its editor, William Shawn, which ignited one of


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Editorial: Farrar, Straus And Giroux

ISBN: 9780374103828

Idioma: Inglés

Número de páginas: 293
Tiempo de lectura:
6h 1m

Encuadernación: Tapa dura

Fecha de lanzamiento: 18/02/2005

Año de edición: 2000

Plaza de edición: New York
Alto: 24.0 cm
Ancho: 16.0 cm

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Escrito por Tom Wolfe


Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe (Richmond 1931 - Nueva York 2018) se reveló en los años 60 como genial reportero y agudísimo cronista. Fue el impulsor y teórico del llamado «Nuevo Periodismo», al que definió como el género literario más vivo de la época. En Anagrama se han publicado los siguientes títulos: La Izquierda Exquisita & Mau-mauando al parachoques, La banda de la casa de la bomba y otras crónicas de la era pop, Los años del desmadre, El Nuevo Periodismo, Lo que hay que tener (Elegidos para la gloria), La palabra pintada, ¿Quién teme al Bauhaus feroz?, Las Décadas Púrpura, Ponche de ácido lisérgico, En nuestro tiempo, y las novelas La hoguera de las vanidades, Bloody Miami y Todo un hombre.
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