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"An excellent book by a genius”, said Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., of this now-classic exploration of the 1960s from the founder of New Journalism and author of such influential works as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Bonfire of the Vanities.
Tom Wolfe explores the style and culture of the 1960s in this dynamic collection of essays - originally stand-alone pieces, many of which were published in Esquire magazine - written in his unique, free-flowing style and his uncanny ability to call it like he sees it.
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby takes a peek inside the then-rising world of custom cars, examines the life of professional NASCAR driver Junior Johnson, and offers an in-depth account of how Lyndon Johnson tried to copy JFK’s classic style. The work invites the listener inside the outrageous city Las Vegas was becoming, profiles intriguing pop-music figures, and explores a few bars The Beatles were known to frequent. Voiced by award-winning narrator Oliver Wyman, this book brings each character, and Wolfe, back to life.
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©Thomas K. Wolfe, Jr.; New York Herald Tribune, Inc. (P)2019 Audible, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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About the Author
Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, Tom Wolfe is perhaps best known for his work as a trailblazer in the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and as the author of searing best-sellers such as The Bonfire of the Vanities. Originally a reporter, Wolfe worked in news for ten years, writing for publications including The New York Herald Tribune, Esquire, New York Magazine, and The Washington Post. In 1965, Wolfe published his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, a collection of essays about the freewheeling 1960s, launching him into the public sphere as a whip-smart and madly inventive cultural critic. Several best-selling nonfiction publications followed, including The Right Stuff, The Pump House Gang, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, works that introduced popular slang—including statusphere,
the right stuff,
The Me Decade,
and good ol’ boy
—into the English lexicon.
Wolfe released his first novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, in 1987 to much praise; the book remained on The New York Times best-seller list for over a year after its initial publication. Three of his books have been adapted into blockbuster films including The Last American Hero (1973), The Right Stuff (1983), and The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990). Wolfe was also the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the National Book Award, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Book Foundation’s 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. A writer with a keen eye for style and all things sensational, Wolfe was known for not only his attention-grabbing writing but also his eye-catching fashion sense—he wore his trademark white suit for decades, donning his ivory tie and matching fedora no matter the season. He died in 2018 in New York City, leaving behind a legacy of deft, neon prose and razor-sharp satire.
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"This is a book that 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." (Newsweek)
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He's a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knight errant who's wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out, and his rule is simple: he'll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Before the A-Team, there was Travis McGee
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 11-12-16
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,170
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,001
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,001
Tom Wolfe - one of the 20th century’s foremost voices in cultural criticism - went from local news reporter to international icon in 1968, with the publication of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Now voiced with vivacity and vigor by Audible Hall of Fame narrator Luke Daniels, the non-fiction swan-dive delves into the world of hippies, hedonism, and everything in between.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Maybe it resonated with a different time and place
- De S. Phillips en 04-11-19
De: Tom Wolfe
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The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
- De: Stanley Booth
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 17 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 85
Stanley Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones’ inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool, in 1969. He lived with them throughout their 1969 American tour, staying up all night together listening to blues, talking about music, ingesting drugs, and consorting with groupies. His thrilling account culminates with their final concert at Altamont Speedway - a nightmare of beating, stabbing, and killing that would signal the end of a generation’s dreams of peace and freedom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superlative rendering of a singular story.
- De Laura Davis en 11-28-15
De: Stanley Booth
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Nine Lives
- Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans
- De: Dan Baum
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 14 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 119
Nines Lives is a multivoiced biography of a dazzling, surreal, and imperiled city, told through the lives of nine unforgettable characters and bracketed by two epic storms: Hurricane Betsy, which transformed New Orleans in the 1960s, and Hurricane Katrina, which nearly destroyed it. Dan Baum brings this kaleidoscopic portrait to life, showing us what was lost in the storm and what remains to be saved.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Do not miss if you're interested in New Orleans
- De Kelly en 03-22-18
De: Dan Baum
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The Cake and the Rain
- A Memoir
- De: Jimmy Webb
- Narrado por: Jimmy Webb
- Duración: 12 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
Jimmy Webb's words have been sung to his music by a rich and deep roster of pop artists, including Glen Campbell, Art Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, Donna Summer, and Linda Ronstadt. He's the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration, and his chart-topping career has, so far, lasted 50 years, most recently with a Kanye West rap hit and a new classical nocturne. Now Webb delivers a snapshot of his life from 1955 to 1970, from the proverbial humble beginnings into a moneyed and manic international world of beautiful women, drugs, cars, and planes.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This Book is Hard to Listen to
- De Robert Alexander en 01-14-21
De: Jimmy Webb
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On the Road: The Original Scroll
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: John Ventimiglia
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 759
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 652
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 651
Though Jack Kerouac began thinking about the novel that was to become On the Road as early as 1947, it was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West 20th Street in Manhattan, that he wrote the first full draft that was satisfactory to him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Classic Brought to Life
- De Sil A. en 11-25-16
De: Jack Kerouac
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The Deep Blue Good-By
- A Travis McGee Novel, Book 1
- De: John D. MacDonald
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 6 h
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,905
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4,351
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,359
He's a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knight errant who's wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out, and his rule is simple: he'll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Before the A-Team, there was Travis McGee
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 11-12-16
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The 42nd Parallel
- De: John Dos Passos
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 13 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 292
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 246
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 247
This first entry in John Dos Passos's celebrated U.S.A. trilogy paints a grand picture of the United States at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful document of an all-too-familiar past
- De Ryan en 06-01-13
De: John Dos Passos
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Black Wings Has My Angel
- De: Elliott Chaze
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 5 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 134
A legend among noir buffs, Chaze's long-lost pulp classic is the dreamlike tale of a man after a jailbreak who meets up with the woman of his dreams - and his nightmares.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Guilt..... a deadly emotion !!
- De John en 08-24-14
De: Elliott Chaze
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Player Piano
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,311
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,069
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,077
Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut – wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Genuine 5-Stars
- De R.A. en 06-07-19
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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What's So Funny?
- My Hilarious Life
- De: Tim Conway, Jane Scovell, Carol Burnett - foreword
- Narrado por: Tim Conway, Carol Burnett, Dick Hill, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,173
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,949
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,940
Six-time Emmy Award-winning funnyman Tim Conway, best known for his characters on The Carol Burnett Show, offers a straight-shooting and hilarious memoir about his life on stage and off as an actor and comedian. In television history, few entertainers have captured as many hearts and made as many people laugh as Tim Conway. There's nothing in the world that Tim Conway would rather do than entertain - and in his first-ever memoir, What's So Funny?, that's exactly what he does.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not narrated by Tim
- De Bob Murdock en 05-05-14
De: Tim Conway, y otros
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Factotum
- De: Charles Bukowski
- Narrado por: Christian Baskous
- Duración: 5 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 788
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 675
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 675
One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable
- De Lucca ate your Lunch! en 12-26-13
De: Charles Bukowski
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Chelsea Girls
- A Novel
- De: Eileen Myles
- Narrado por: Eileen Myles
- Duración: 6 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 100
In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms life into a work of art. Told in her audacious voice, made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, Chelsea Girls cobbles together memories of Myles's 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, her volatile adolescence, her unabashed "lesbianity," and her riotous pursuit of survival as a poet in 1970s New York.
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5 out of 5 stars
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fascinatingly skanky
- De Megon J. Walker en 07-15-16
De: Eileen Myles
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Koko
- Blue Rose Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Peter Straub
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 22 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 368
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 333
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 336
KOKO. Only four men knew what it meant. Now they must stop it. They are Vietnam vets — a doctor, a lawyer, a working stiff, and a writer. Very different from each other, they are nonetheless linked by a shared history and a single shattering secret. Now, they have been reunited and are about to embark on a quest that will take them from Washington, D.C., to the graveyards and fleshpots of the Far East to the human jungle of New York.
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2 out of 5 stars
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7 hours in and I am done
- De bionichands en 01-26-12
De: Peter Straub
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Pronto
- De: Elmore Leonard
- Narrado por: Alexander Adams
- Duración: 5 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,542
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,357
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,354
The feds want Miami bookmaker Harry Arno to squeal on his wiseguy boss. So they're putting word out on the street that Arno's skimming profits from "Jimmy Cap" Capotorto - which he is, but everybody does it. He was planning to retire to Italy someday anyway, so Harry figures now's a good time to get lost. U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens knows Harry's tricky - the bookie ditched him once in an airport while in the marshal's custody - but not careful.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great character, even better dialogue!
- De Ron en 11-15-11
De: Elmore Leonard
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The Last Madam
- A Life in the New Orleans Underworld
- De: Christine Wiltz
- Narrado por: Donna Postel
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 323
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 289
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 286
1916: Norma Wallace, age 15, arrived in New Orleans. Sexy and shrewd, she quickly went from streetwalker to madam and by 1920 had opened what became a legendary house of prostitution. There she entertained a steady stream of governors, gangsters, and movie stars until she was arrested at last in 1962. Shortly before she died in 1974, she tape-recorded her memories. With those tapes and original research, Christine Wiltz chronicles Norma's rise and fall with the social history of New Orleans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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pronunciations
- De lynda en 07-29-19
De: Christine Wiltz
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Appointment in Samarra
- Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- De: John O'Hara, Charles McGrath - introduction
- Narrado por: Christian Camargo
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 283
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 246
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 244
In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, social circuit is electrified with parties and dances. At the center of the social elite stand Julian and Caroline English. But in one rash moment born inside a highball glass, Julian breaks with polite society and begins a rapid descent toward self-destruction.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Quite good, but not a classic
- De Michael en 04-25-15
De: John O'Hara, y otros
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The Wayward Bus
- De: John Steinbeck, Gary Schamhorst - introduction
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 806
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 722
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 718
In his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success, The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck's vision comes wonderfully to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California's back roads, transporting the lost and the lonely, the good and the greedy, the stupid and the scheming, the beautiful and the vicious away from their shattered dreams and, possibly, toward the promise of the future. This edition features an introduction by Gary Scharnhorst.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Steinbeck always touches the heart, makes you feel
- De Kelly en 05-08-17
De: John Steinbeck, y otros
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Strong Motion
- De: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrado por: Scott Aiello
- Duración: 20 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 224
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 193
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 196
Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complicate everything.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Compelling Story, Ridiculous Narrator
- De DianeReads en 02-28-16
De: Jonathan Franzen
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The Pump House Gang
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
A collection of non-fiction essays about the counter-culture of the 1960s that dives deep into the issues that marked the era: female empowerment, increasing freedom around sexuality, vibrant subcultures, and the rise of psychedelic drugs. In this sprawling work, Wolfe profiles Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and compares him to Jay Gatsby, interviews one of the first women to get breast implants, and hangs out with freewheeling surfers (aka The Pump House Gang).
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3 out of 5 stars
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a glimpse into the Mod Life of the sixties
- De john en 05-09-24
De: Tom Wolfe
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,170
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,001
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,001
Tom Wolfe - one of the 20th century’s foremost voices in cultural criticism - went from local news reporter to international icon in 1968, with the publication of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Now voiced with vivacity and vigor by Audible Hall of Fame narrator Luke Daniels, the non-fiction swan-dive delves into the world of hippies, hedonism, and everything in between.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Maybe it resonated with a different time and place
- De S. Phillips en 04-11-19
De: Tom Wolfe
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 27 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,007
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,145
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,135
Tom Wolfe's best-selling modern classic tells the story of Sherman McCoy, an elite Wall Street bond trader who has it all: wealth, power, prestige, a Park Avenue apartment, a beautiful wife, and an even more beautiful mistress - until one wrong turn sends Sherman spiraling downward into a humiliating fall from grace. A car accident in the Bronx involving Sherman, his girlfriend, and two young lower-class Black men sets a match to the incendiary racial and social tensions of 1980s New York City.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Big mistake
- De karen en 08-31-14
De: Tom Wolfe
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The Purple Decades
- A Reader
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 14 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Before he became a best-selling novelist (The Bonfire of the Vanities), Tom Wolfe was an essayist and keen observer of 1960s and 1970s culture for Esquire and Rolling Stone. (This is the man who coined the phrase "Me Decade", after all.) This ear-candy collection of 20 essays and articles narrated by Edoardo Ballerini was handpicked by Wolfe and includes some of his best-known nonfiction work.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Spite in short-story form
- De John C. Simmons en 11-03-24
De: Tom Wolfe
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Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Harold N. Cropp
- Duración: 4 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 352
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 303
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 299
In "Radical Chic", Wolfe focuses primarily on one symbolic event: a gathering of the politically correct at Leonard Bernstein’s duplex apartment on Park Avenue to meet spokesmen of the Black Panther Party. He re-creates the incongruous scene - and its astonishing repercussions - with high fidelity. In the companion essay, Wolfe travels west to San Francisco to survey another meeting-ground between militant minorities and the liberal white establishment. "Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers" deals with the newly emerging art of confrontation, as practiced by San Francisco’s militant minorities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- De michael en 01-05-14
De: Tom Wolfe
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The Kingdom of Speech
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 288
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 251
Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech - not evolution - is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Takedown of a pseudointellectual bully!
- De Wayne en 09-01-16
De: Tom Wolfe
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The Pump House Gang
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
A collection of non-fiction essays about the counter-culture of the 1960s that dives deep into the issues that marked the era: female empowerment, increasing freedom around sexuality, vibrant subcultures, and the rise of psychedelic drugs. In this sprawling work, Wolfe profiles Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and compares him to Jay Gatsby, interviews one of the first women to get breast implants, and hangs out with freewheeling surfers (aka The Pump House Gang).
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3 out of 5 stars
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a glimpse into the Mod Life of the sixties
- De john en 05-09-24
De: Tom Wolfe
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,170
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,001
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,001
Tom Wolfe - one of the 20th century’s foremost voices in cultural criticism - went from local news reporter to international icon in 1968, with the publication of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Now voiced with vivacity and vigor by Audible Hall of Fame narrator Luke Daniels, the non-fiction swan-dive delves into the world of hippies, hedonism, and everything in between.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Maybe it resonated with a different time and place
- De S. Phillips en 04-11-19
De: Tom Wolfe
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 27 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,007
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,145
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,135
Tom Wolfe's best-selling modern classic tells the story of Sherman McCoy, an elite Wall Street bond trader who has it all: wealth, power, prestige, a Park Avenue apartment, a beautiful wife, and an even more beautiful mistress - until one wrong turn sends Sherman spiraling downward into a humiliating fall from grace. A car accident in the Bronx involving Sherman, his girlfriend, and two young lower-class Black men sets a match to the incendiary racial and social tensions of 1980s New York City.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Big mistake
- De karen en 08-31-14
De: Tom Wolfe
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The Purple Decades
- A Reader
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 14 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Before he became a best-selling novelist (The Bonfire of the Vanities), Tom Wolfe was an essayist and keen observer of 1960s and 1970s culture for Esquire and Rolling Stone. (This is the man who coined the phrase "Me Decade", after all.) This ear-candy collection of 20 essays and articles narrated by Edoardo Ballerini was handpicked by Wolfe and includes some of his best-known nonfiction work.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Spite in short-story form
- De John C. Simmons en 11-03-24
De: Tom Wolfe
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Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Harold N. Cropp
- Duración: 4 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 352
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 303
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 299
In "Radical Chic", Wolfe focuses primarily on one symbolic event: a gathering of the politically correct at Leonard Bernstein’s duplex apartment on Park Avenue to meet spokesmen of the Black Panther Party. He re-creates the incongruous scene - and its astonishing repercussions - with high fidelity. In the companion essay, Wolfe travels west to San Francisco to survey another meeting-ground between militant minorities and the liberal white establishment. "Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers" deals with the newly emerging art of confrontation, as practiced by San Francisco’s militant minorities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- De michael en 01-05-14
De: Tom Wolfe
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The Kingdom of Speech
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 288
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 251
Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech - not evolution - is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Takedown of a pseudointellectual bully!
- De Wayne en 09-01-16
De: Tom Wolfe
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Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine
- And Other Stories, Sketches, and Essays
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
In this 1976 collection of essays, Americana icon Tom Wolfe explores the social status strife of the 1970s, eviscerating trends of faux-sympathy and self-absorption, going as far as to coin the term "The 'Me' Decade" to describe the period’s narcissism. And when paired with the clear, confident delivery of storied narrator and stage-and-screen veteran Peter Berkrot, Wolfe’s incisive wit and cynical bite is more blistering than ever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A journey back to my teens
- De Richard Del Connor en 12-28-22
De: Tom Wolfe
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A Man in Full
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 35 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 403
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 347
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 346
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.
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4 out of 5 stars
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What a pity!
- De Edgar en 08-01-18
De: Tom Wolfe
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From Bauhaus to Our House
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Dennis McKee
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 276
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 193
In Tom Wolfe's hands, the strange saga of American architecture in the 20th century makes for both high comedy and intellectual excitement. This is his sequel to The Painted Word, the book that caused such a furor in the art world five years before. Once again Wolfe shows how social and intellectual fashions have determined aesthetic form in our time and how willingly the creators have abandoned personal vision and originality in order to work a la mode.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So snarky I kept having to back up and repeat
- De Ellen en 04-08-09
De: Tom Wolfe
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The Right Stuff
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Dennis Quaid
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,670
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,145
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,120
Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure: namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers that made The Right Stuff a classic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Righteous Book, Righteous Narrator, Righteous MEN!
- De Gillian en 02-08-18
De: Tom Wolfe
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The Painted Word
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Harold N. Cropp
- Duración: 2 h y 6 m
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No one skewers the popular movements of American culture like Tom Wolfe. In 1975, he turned his satirical pen to the pretensions of the contemporary art world - a world of social climbing, elitist posturing, and ingeniously absurd self-justifying theorizing. From the fuliginous flatness of the 50s to the pop op minimal 60s, right on through the now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t 70s, Tom Wolfe debunks the great American myth of modern art in an incandescent, hilarious, and devastating blast.
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excellent
- De Hillary en 11-27-16
De: Tom Wolfe
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I Am Charlotte Simmons
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Dylan Baker
- Duración: 31 h y 43 m
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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, who has come here on full scholarship. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, sex, Cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Decadence through the eyes of a ?good girl?
- De Eric en 11-18-04
De: Tom Wolfe
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- Anonymous User
- 06-24-22
Interesting story
an interesting look at the '50s and '60s through the eyes of a reporter.
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- J. Kinkley
- 08-29-23
Tom Wolfe the Astute Observor
Very few writers have the social chops to gain access to circles high and low, and even fewer are keen enough to listen and process their stories and piece together the jigsaw puzzle of society. Somehow I had never read this title and was glad I did to see Wolfe in fine form reporting on the explosive 1960s.
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