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Tom Wolfe's America.

While The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities remain perhaps his best-known works, Tom Wolfe's journalism and fiction continues to enjoy a large audience, perhaps chiefly because of the variety of his subjects and his controversial approach to them. Here, McEneaney offers an account of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McEneaney, Kevin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1. The Manhattan Virginian; CHAPTER 2. Journalism and Hyperbole; CHAPTER 3. Prankster Riddles; CHAPTER 4. From Reporting to Politics; CHAPTER 5. Historian at Edge City; CHAPTER 6. Iconoclastic Culture Shredding; CHAPTER 7. Vanity Rags; CHAPTER 8. Cultural Drift; CHAPTER 9. The Ivory Tower in Ruins?; CHAPTER 10. Vroom! Wolfe's Status in American Literature; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. 
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