The New Journalism

By:

Tom Wolfe

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‘The hell with it . . . let chaos reign . . . louder music, more wine . . . All the old traditions are exhausted and no new one is yet established. All bets are off! The odds are cancelled! It’s anybody’s ballgame . . . ’ Tom Wolfe introduces and exults in his generation’s journalistic talent: Truman Capote inside the mind of a psychotic killer Hunter S. Thompson skunk drunk at the Kentucky Derby Michael Herr dispatching reality from the Vietnam killing fields Rex Reed giving the star treatment to the ageing Ava Gardner As well as Norman Mailer Joe Eszterhas Terry Southern Nicholas Tomalin George Plimpton James Mills Gay Talese Joan Didion and many other legends of tape and typewriter telling it like it is from Warhol’s Factory to the White House lawn, from the saddle of a Harley to the toughest football team in the US.

Author Biography:

Tom Wolfe (b. 1931) is an American journalist and author. He worked for The Washington Post and The New York Herald Tribune, amongst others. There, he experimented with a new genre which he called New Journalism, in which journalists experiment with the use of literary devices in their news reporting. His first work of fiction, The Bonfire of the Vanities, was published in 1987.

Release date Australia

October 12th, 1990

Author

Tom Wolfe

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Interest Age

From 18 years

Pages

432

Dimensions

130x197x26

ISBN-13

9780330243155

Product ID

2080619

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