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One night in the Bronx a millionaire, Sherman McCoy, and his mistress have an accident. The next day a young Black is in hospital in a coma as McCoy heads for disaster. His humiliation is at the centre of a satire on the decaying class, racial and political structure of New York in the 1980s.

Die Freiheit ist nur 20 Meter entfernt fur den kubanischen Fluchtling, der sich auf den Mast einer Luxusjacht vor Miami gefluchtet hat. Aber dann wird er vor den Augen von Millionen Fernsehzuschauern in einer spektakularen Aktion live verhaftet. Und das ausgerechnet vom netten Nestor, einem Polizisten mit kubanischen Wurzeln, der unter den chauvinistischen Spruchen seiner weien Vorgesetzten leidet. Die ganze Stadt ist in zwei Lager gespalten: Fur seine Familie und Landsleute ist Nestor ein Verrater, fur die Weien ein Held und Musteramerikaner. Soll der kubanische Burgermeister ihn suspendieren oder mit Orden schmucken? Versaut ihm dieser Idiot die Wiederwahl?Genusslich und packend taucht Tom Wolfe ein in die verruckteste Stadt Amerikas: Miami, wo die Spanisch sprechenden Kubaner inzwischen die Mehrheit, aber die Weien immer noch das Geld haben. Wo die Jugend am Strand den ewigen Spa und die Rentner beim Schonheitschirurgen das ewige Leben suchen. Wo die Blutlinien mitten durch den amerikanischen Traum verlaufen.

The first novel by the great American novelist, now the subject of a major new film, Genius, starring Jude Law, Colin Firth, Dominic West and Nicole Kidman. Eugene Gant, born in 1900 to hard-drinking stone-cutter Oliver and entrepreneurial Eliza, grows up in small-town America. Both lonely outsider and passionate chronicler of American life, Eugene experiences upheaval and family tragedy before coming to realise that he must leave his home behind if he is to forge his own path in the world. This is the dazzlingly rich first novel from one of the most brilliant and mercurial voices of early twentieth-century, who was a major influence on writers including Hunter S Thompson, Ray Bradbury, Philip Roth and the Beats. This new edition includes an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian. Wolfe's second novel, Of Time and the River, continuing the story of Eugene Gant, is also now available in Penguin Classics.

The second novel by the great American novelist, now the subject of a major new film, Genius, starring Jude Law, Colin Firth, Dominic West and Nicole Kidman. It is 1920 and Eugene Gant leaves the American South for Harvard, New York and Europe, determined to make his way as a writer. On the boat home, he meets Esther Jack, the woman who is to dominate his life. Autobiographical, vital and passionate, Wolfe''s second novel blazes with energy and life. Wolfe''s first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, is also now available in Penguin Classics. Together, the two novels tell the story of Eugene Gant, Wolfe''s fictional alter-ego, as he grows up in a dysfunctional family in the American South and discovers his true vocation as a writer. This new edition includes an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian.

Una apabullante demostración de versatilidad, descaro, inteligencia y profundidad: una selección de los mejores textos de Tom Wolfe. Durante los años sesenta y setenta, las Décadas Púrpura, hizo su aparicion y alcanzo la fama mundial Tom Wolfe, inventor y principal artifice de ese genero literario conocido como Nuevo Periodismo. Prodigiosamente atento a los nuevos estilos de vida, sutil, esceptico, brillantisimo y con un humor devastador, Wolfe se convirtio inmediatamente en el principal cronista del periodo. Sus innovaciones estilisticas, sus hazañas como reportero, su capacidad de penetracion en los entresijos de la vida norteamericana, culminaron con la publicacion de Elegidos para la gloria (Lo que hay que tener) y la obtencion de los mas importantes premios literarios y periodisticos de su pais. Wolfe acuño conceptos iluminadores como fogonazos: el radical chic, la decada del yo y tantos otros.Aunque Tom Wolfe siempre tuvo una resuelta vocacion de snob, su carrera se caracterizo por su capacidad de adentrarse en mundos muy alejados del suyo. Muestra de ello son sus textos sobre las rebeliones de los barrios bajos, sobre la guerra aerea en Vietnam y sobre el movimiento hippie, tambien ampliamente representados en esta crucial antologia. Pero, ademas, tambien ha firmado dos de los libros sobre arte mas polemicos de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, La palabra pintada y ¿Quien teme al Bauhaus feroz?, que señalaban los cambios de orientacion sufridos por la pintura y la arquitectura. Esta seleccion de textos es una apabullante demostracion de la versatilidad, descaro, inteligencia y profundidad, unidas a una amenidad de extraordinario periodista, que siempre caracterizaron a un escritor comprometido con captar el verdadero espiritu de su tiempo.

Chronique romancée de la folle pérégrination, en 1968, à travers les Etats-Unis, du premier groupe psychédélique américain, les Pranksters. On y retrouve l'Amérique des années 1970.

The setting is Atlanta, Georgia a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta conglomerate king whose outsize ego has at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 29,000 acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife, and a half-empty office complex with a staggering load of debt. Meanwhile, Conrad Hensley, idealistic young father of two, is laid off from his job at the Croker Global Foods warehouse near Oakland and finds himself spiraling into the lower depths of the American legal system. And back in Atlanta, when star Georgia Tech running back Fareek the Canon Fanon, a homegrown product of the citys slums, is accused of date-raping the daughter of a pillar of the white establishment, upscale black lawyer Roger White II is asked to represent Fanon and help keep the citys delicate racial balance from blowing sky-high. Networks of illegal Asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real estate syndicates Wolfe shows us contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most admired novelist. Charlie Crokers deliverance from his tribulations provides an unforgettable denouement to the most widely awaited, hilarious and telling novel America has seen in ages Tom Wolfes most outstanding achievement to date.

Novedad Mayo 2001Polémico, mordaz, irónico y despiadado son algunos de los calificativos que se atribuyen a Tom Wolfe. Sin embargo, el llamado padre del nuevo periodismo es también un observador lúc

In Tom Wolfe's morality tale, his innocent heroine, Charlotte Simmons, is an earnest freshman at the fictional Dupont University. Charlotte is shocked by the campus goings-on--sex, drugs, rock & roll, and worse--and by the amoral, high-living students she encounters: her roommate is a snooty rich girl with no morals, and (in a graphically described scene) Charlotte loses her virginity to a caddish heartbreaker. A sexual scandal and a sports scandal concentrate the plot, as Charlotte endures a series of trials, at the end of which she emerges older, wiser, and in control. Wolfe's novel takes place entirely on the college campus, and most of the characters are students in a work that is quite different from his last novels--and one that is, inevitably, seen as a tour de force by a 74-year-old writer whose college days are far behind him and who has created, for the first time, a female heroine. A New York Times Notable Book for 2004

With his signature eye for detail, the "New York Times" bestselling atuhor draws on extensive observation of campuses across the country to immortalize college life in the ''00s. Dupont University--the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America''s youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition . . . Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the uppercrust coeds of Dupont, sex, Cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time. As Charlotte encounters Dupont''s privileged elite--her roommate, Beverly, a Groton-educated Brahmin in lusty pursuit of lacrosse players; Jojo Johanssen, the only white starting player on Dupont''s godlike basketball team, whose position is threatened by a hotshot black freshman from the projects; the Young Turk of Saint Ray fraternity, Hoyt Thorpe, whose heady sense of entitlement and social domination is clinched by his accidental brawl with a bodyguard for the governor of California; and Adam Geller, one of the Millennial Mutants who run the university''s "independent" newspaper and who consider themselves the last bastion of intellectual endeavor on the sex-crazed, jock-obsessed campus--she gains a new, revelatory sense of her own power, that of her difference and of her very innocence, but little does she realize that she will act as a catalyst in all of their lives. With his signature eye for detail, Tom Wolfe draws on extensive observation of campuses across the country to immortalize college life in the ''00s. "I Am Charlotte Simmons "is the much-anticipated triumph of America''s master chronicler.