New York, NY, USA: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "A decade ago, The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era- and established Tom Wolfe as our prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. Now the master is back with a pitch-perfect coast-to-coast portrait of our wild and woolly, no-holds-barred, multifarious country on the cusp of the millennium. The setting is Atlanta, Georgia-..... More

New York, NY, USA: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. "In this devastatingly funny book, Tom Wolfe shows again why he is regarded as the most brilliant observer of the American social scene writing today. The book consists of two long essays, closely related in theme and substance, both dealing with political stances and social styles in our status-minded world." (from front flap) The classic, prescient work by..... More

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., 1982. Book Club. Hardcover. "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..... More