Big men. Big money. Big games. Big libidos. Big trouble. 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. This time the setting is Atlanta, Georgia--a racially mixed late-century

Tom Wood, whose writing "crackles like the early work of Robert Ludlum" (_Booklist_) returns with a white-knuckle read--and an anti-hero assassin who sets a new standard for delivering brutal, no-holds-barred action... HE GOES BY ONE NAME. HE HAS NO PAST. HIS FUTURE IS MURDER. Vict

*The Right Stuff* is Tom Wolfe's deft account of a cast of heroes, introduced to America with the explosion of space exploration in the romantic heyday of the 20th century and encapsulated in Neal Armstong's "one giant step for mankind." Beginning with the first experiments with manned space flight

**A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now.** As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay-with officer Nestor Camacho on board-Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor,

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**THIS BOOK IS GREAT, PLEASE SUPPORT THE AUTHOR AND BUY THE BOOK IF YOU LIKED IT** Foreword by Steven Forrest. Astrologer, medium, and channel Tom Jacobs shares his unique approach to karmic astrology. His experiences as a medium working with the spirits of the dead and as a channel bringing thr

Elegidos para la gloria, posiblemente el libro más importante de Tom Wolfe, nos ofrece el resultado de seis años de tarea apasionante: investigar en qué había consistido realmente la carrera espacial y quiénes eran realmente sus más directos protagonistas: los astronautas. Los astronautas procedían

Souvarof… un îlot de huit cents mètres de long sur trois cents mètres de large, jeté dans le Pacifique-Sud, à l’écart de toute terre habitée. C’est sur ce caillou de corail que Tom Neale jette son dévolu. Marin sur les lignes de commerce qui sillonnent le Pacifique et l’océan Indien, puis employé en

En este libro, Tom Wolfe examinó provocativamente, sobre el terreno, los recientes monstruos sagrados, las instituciones de la era pop, los representantes de la nueva cultura: los surfistas, los locos de la moto, los Muchachos de la Melena y la estética de lo rancio, Hefner (Playboy), el rey de los

Este es el mito fundacional de los hippies, la historia de Ken Kesey y los Alegres Bromistas. Estamos en los años sesenta y Ken Kesey, el autor de Alguien voló sobre el nido del cuco, ha reunido a su alrededor a los «bromistas», una desmadrada corte de jóvenes radicales embarcados en novísimos pr

Oliver T. Rabbit develops a revolutionary new invention and Edmund the Rabbiton develops an inexplicable new phobia. When Edmund unwittingly opens an interdimensional doorway, Bartholomew, Oliver, and Edmund are pulled into the strange world of Nirriim. Edmund encounters the enigmatic thirteen Blu