03531nam 2200613Ia 450 991078073590332120231219175845.0979-82-16-02636-50-313-36544-X10.5040/9798216026365(CKB)2480000000001698(MH)011980741-6(SSID)ssj0000481126(PQKBManifestationID)12167810(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000481126(PQKBWorkID)10470284(PQKB)11226818(Au-PeEL)EBL2055171(CaPaEBR)ebr11057261(CaONFJC)MIL787805(OCoLC)910069825(MiAaPQ)EBC2055171(OCoLC)1395568086(UkLoBP)BP9798216026365BC(EXLCZ)99248000000000169820230825e20202023 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTom Wolfe's America heroes, pranksters, and fools /Kevin T. McEneaney1st ed.Westport, CT :Praeger,2020.London :Bloomsbury Publishing (UK),2023.1 online resource (x, 197 pages)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-313-36545-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 IndexWhile 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 the man and his works, explaining along the way Wolfe's use of irony, his obsessive themes, and even his use of pranks. More comprehensive in scope than any preceding book on Wolfe, it offers accurate and accessible commentary based upon what Wolfe admits about his own work. In this new book, Wolfe's work is put in journalistic and literary context. The reliability of Wolfe's journalism is discussed, especially when there are alternative narrations to events he has depicted. McEneaney also examines the Wolfe's use of pranks that he plays on readers at times, and uncovers the influences on Wolfe that have contributed to his unique style. Finally, the author discusses Wolfe's impact on other writers. Readers will gain access into Wolfe's world through this detailed and colorful work.Literary StudiesLiterary studies: generalbicsscLiterary Studies.Literary studies: general818/.5409McEneaney Kevin T.1484827UkLoBPUkLoBPBOOK9910780735903321Tom Wolfe's America3703629UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress