New Releases by Tom Wolfe

Sherman MacCoy, fleuron de la jeune aristocratie des boursiers de Wall Street, vit très luxueusement sur Park Avenue. Mais, un soir, tout bascule : perdu dans le Bronx avec sa maîtresse, il renverse un jeune Noir et prend la fuite. Une des plus cyniques et des plus justes présentations de New York.

A roughout is the start of a carving that skips the first few steps to take you right into the good part. In his friendly, laid-back way, Tom Wolfe guides you step-by-step through the carving of an unlucky fisherman from his own roughout design. The emphasis here is on staying loose with the carving and seeing the endless possibilities you have in carving anything from the most basic shapes to the smallest details.

" L''audace de Tom Wolfe ? Faire entrer la totalité de la société américaine contemporaine dans une seule et unique œuvre d''art, formidable et tentaculaire ". The New York Times. " Un roman imposant, d''une ambition spectaculaire, superbement observé, et d''une drôlerie impitoyable ". Entertaimnent Weekly. " Des dialogues tranchants. Une mise en scène ébouriffante... Un chef-d''œuvre... ". The Wall Street Journal. " Un homme, un vrai rappelle l''œuvre de Dickens et des autres grands écrivains de l''ère victorienne, par la façon qu''il a d''embrasser tout l''éventail de la société humaine. Voici l''œuvre d''un journaliste hardi, aux facultés de perception aiguës, d''un homme qui croit que la fiction doit engager le monde, et qui y parvient avec une puissance narrative tout à fait singulière ". The Washington Post.

Once you decide what kind of spirits are living in your bottles, Tom Wolfe will set you to work carving charming faces to match, using small pieces of scrap wood, basic carving tools and paint, and not much time. The finished carvings could be hung around a bottle, a neck, on a Christmas tree, or anywhere else that could use a little personality! More than 200 color photos paired with step-by-step instructions, plus a full-color gallery of 20 different carved bottle spirits.

El protagonista es un yuppie, un asesor financiero que se ha convertido en la estrella de una firma de brokers, pero que se ve inmerso en rocambolescas dificultades jurdicas, matrimoniales e incluso econmicas a partir de la noche en que se pierde por las calles de Bronx cuando llevaba a su amante del aeropuerto Kennedy a su nido de amor.

When Tom carved a walking stick in his book, Tom Wolfe Carves Woodspirits and Walking Sticks, it was almost an afterthought. But it was soon followed by a book devoted to them, Carving Canes & Walking Sticks. Now we are pleased to present a brand new book with original patterns and different techniques to produce creative canes and walking sticks. Also included are designs for sword canes. As always each step is clearly illustrated in full color and patterns are presented to aid the carver in his or her own creation. A gallery of 25 canes and 11 patterns make this a most useful aid to carving.

Cette chronique, qui évoque l''univers des Freak Brothers, retrace la pérégrination à travers les Etats Unis du premier groupe psychédélique américain, les Pranksters. A bord d''un vieux bus peinturluré embarquent Ken Kesey (l''auteur de vol au-dessus d''un nid de coucou) Neal Cassady (héros du On the Road de Kerouac) et quelques autres peintres, écrivains, drogués, vagabonds, marginaux divers. Le groupe recevra la visite de Beatles, participera aux " Trip Festivals " et à la première convention nationale de l''Underground, sans cesser d''avoir le FBI aux trousses. Les années 1970 commencent.

This glorious tribute to a contemporary master of humanist art covers his Vietnam Veterans Memorial Three Soldiers, National Cathedral Creation doors, and acrylic works.

Tells the story of the first American astronauts.

''The hell with it . . . let chaos reign . . . louder music, more wine . . . All the old traditions are exhausted and no new one is yet established. All bets are off! The odds are cancelled! It''s anybody''s ballgame . . . '' Tom Wolfe introduces and exults in his generation''s journalistic talent: Truman Capote inside the mind of a psychotic killer Hunter S. Thompson skunk drunk at the Kentucky Derby Michael Herr dispatching reality from the Vietnam killing fields Rex Reed giving the star treatment to the ageing Ava Gardner As well as Norman Mailer Joe Eszterhas Terry Southern Nicholas Tomalin George Plimpton James Mills Gay Talese Joan Didion and many other legends of tape and typewriter telling it like it is from Warhol''s Factory to the White House lawn, from the saddle of a Harley to the toughest football team in the US.

A collection of impeccably observed stories, sketches, and essays in full, exuberant, classic Wolfe mode. The third installment in Wolfe’s trilogy of essay-length works after The Pump House Gang and The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine is wide-ranging, irreverent, colorful, and gimlet-eyed. Originally published in 1976, these stories capture the full spectrum of the ’70s (“the Me Decade,” in Wolfe’s memorable words), from the hilarious to the hard-hitting. Reissued for today’s reader with a cover by the renowned artist Seymour Chwast, Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine is classic Wolfe.

En toile de fond : la guerre froide que se livrent les Américains et les Russes. L''enjeu : rien moins que les étoiles. Le projet : Mercury. Les héros : sept astronautes à la conquête du ciel, courageux, pleins d''expérience, prêts à payer. de leur peau pour goûter à la gloire. Héroïque, Chuck Yeager qui a franchi le premier le mur du son. Héroïque, John Glenn qui effectue le premier vol orbital jamais réalisé par un Américain. Héroïque, Gus Grissom qui réussit sa difficile mission... mais voilà qu''il saute à la mer, pris de panique ! Ils ont peur, ces héros ? Et leurs femmes pleurent ?.. Ça, des as ? Ou " des fils de p..., des salopards ", comme le prétend Pancho Bannes, la patronne du bar, thêàtre de scènes d''un grand comique. Ou des singes, puis-qu''ils subissent les mêmes tests que les animaux de laboratoire et qu''on leur dit sans cesse que le premier à effectuer le projet Mercury sera... un chimpanzé. Ou des pantins entre les mains des médias américains. Un peu de tout cela, donc des hommes, écrit en substance Tom Wolfe. Et leur " Etoffe " est humaine, tout simplement.

The essential collection of Tom Wolfe’s writing on a turning-point era in modern American culture. The Purple Decades brings together the author''s selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the complete text of Mau-Mauing and the Flak Catchers, his account of the wild games the poverty program encouraged minority groups to play. It was in the 1960s and 1970s—those “purple decades”—that Tom Wolfe rose to fame as one of the late-twentieth-century pioneers of American literature. He became the foremost chronicler of the gaudiest period in American history, much of which is spread out before us in these selections from nine of his books. Wolfe’s innovations in style, his feats as a reporter, and his insights into modern American life dominated a period of widespread experimentation in the writing of nonfiction. Wolfe’s contributions to the language of the purple decades range from the phrases “the right stuff” to “radical chic,” the latter of which he coined in 1970, when Leonard Bernstein gave a party for the Black Panthers in his apartment on Park Avenue; and on to “the Me Decade,” as the 1970s were dubbed as soon as Wolfe’s essay “The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening” appeared in 1976. The complete texts of “The Last American Hero” and “The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening,” and long sections of “Radical Chic” and The Right Stuff, are included here in The Purple Decades. Generous selections from both From Bauhaus to Our House and The Painted Word also appear here, as well as many stories from The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, The Pump House Gang, and Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine. When Tom Wolfe’s first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, was published in 1965, Newsweek predicted: “This will be a sharp pleasure to reread years from now, when it will bring back, like a falcon in the sky of memory, a whole world that is currently jetting and jazzing its way somewhere or other.” In these pages the falcon flies with big talons, and an even bigger grin, across the first two decades of Tom Wolfe’s literary career.

Tom Wolfe''s much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD-induced "acid tests" all along the way. Long considered one of the greatest books about the history of the hippies, Wolfe''s ability to research like a reporter and simultaneously evoke the hallucinogenic indulgence of the era ensures that this book, written in 1967, will live long in the counter-culture canon of American literature.