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Hooking Up

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099565888

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 213g

  • RRP: £12.99

Hooking Up

In Hooking Up Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, observing the 'lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000' - everything from teenage sexual manners to how genetics and neuroscience are changing the way we regard ourselves. Also included in this collection are some of his most classic and enduring pieces of journalism, and 'Ambush art at Fort Bragg', his fiercely satirical novella about sting TV.

Funny, often savagely so, hard-hitting and wise, Wolfe remains a unique master-chronicler of America and its future.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099565888

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 213g

  • RRP: £12.99

Reviews

  • I love Tom Wolfe... Whenever some big bizarro thing happens...I want the man in the white suit to do his usual exhaustive reporting, turn the labels inside out and hypocrites upside down...and tell me what's what in one of those jittering, dazzling riffs of his

    Margaret Dowd, New York Times Book Review

  • Delicious

    Entertainment Weekly

  • The finest essayist-cum-novelist-cum-reporter of our era, Wolfe combines lively writing and endless energy with an astonishingly astute, ever-curious eye

    Forbes Magazine

  • A great introduction to Wolfe the nonfiction stylist

    Newsweek

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About the Author

Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was 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.

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