Tom Wolfe, "America's most skillful satirist" (The Atlantic Monthly), examines the strange saga of American architecture in this sequel to The Painted Word.
From Bauhaus to Our House
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Year
- 2011
- Category
- Fiction
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