,
96 New Picks from the Big Celebrity Book Clubs
Tom Wolfe

more photos (1)

Tom Wolfe’s Followers (2,629)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo

Add New
Videos

BACK TO BLOOD by Tom Wolfe
Add a comment

More videos…

Tom Wolfe


Born
in Richmond, Virginia, The United States
March 02, 1931

Died
May 14, 2018

Website

Genre
Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction, Contemporary


Wolfe was educated at Washington and Lee Universities and also at Yale, where he received a PhD in American studies.

Tom Wolfe spent his early days as a Washington Post beat reporter, where his free-association, onomatopoetic style would later become the trademark of New Journalism. In books such as The Electric Koolaid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and The Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolfe delves into the inner workings of the mind, writing about the unconscious decisions people make in their lives. His attention to eccentricities of human behavior and language and to questions of social status are considered unparalleled in the American literary canon.


He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Tom Wolfe is ...more

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.88 · 286,829 ratings · 14,320 reviews · 190 distinct works • Similar authors
The Bonfire of the Vanities
3.89 avg rating — 79,309 ratings — published 1987 — 202 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid ...
3.92 avg rating — 74,519 ratings — published 1968 — 94 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
The Right Stuff
4.22 avg rating — 51,802 ratings — published 1979 — 102 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
I am Charlotte Simmons
3.44 avg rating — 27,589 ratings — published 2004 — 75 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
A Man in Full
3.87 avg rating — 18,267 ratings — published 1998 — 92 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Back to Blood
3.30 avg rating — 9,192 ratings — published 2012 — 61 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
The Painted Word
3.84 avg rating — 6,602 ratings — published 1975 — 37 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
From Bauhaus to Our House
3.76 avg rating — 3,756 ratings — published 1981 — 29 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing t...
3.80 avg rating — 3,462 ratings — published 1970 — 62 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine...
3.75 avg rating — 3,367 ratings — published 1965 — 67 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
More books by Tom Wolfe…

Series by Tom Wolfe

Um Homem em Cheio, vol. I Um Homem em Cheio, vol. II
(2 books)
by
3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings

Related News

The literary institution paints a vivid tableau of wildly diverse Miami characters in his latest opus, Back to Blood, about a police officer thrust...
Read more...
0 likes · 0 comments
Alan Stern is the coauthor of the new book Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto, which gives an insider’s...
Read more...
-1 likes · 0 comments
Quotes by Tom Wolfe  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
― Tom Wolfe
1797 likes
Like

“A cult is a religion with no political power.”
― Tom Wolfe
tags: atheism, philosophy
547 likes
Like

“Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.”
― Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
215 likes
Like

Polls

More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics posts views last activity  
The Seasonal Read...: 10.7 - I Think We Can Handle The Truth 40 220 Aug 26, 2010 01:03PM  
Book Nook Cafe: What I read September 2010 78 78 Oct 09, 2010 02:46PM  
100+ Books in 2023: Michael's 100 Books for 2010 68 190 Jan 14, 2011 01:34PM  
The Seasonal Read...: * Summer Challenge 2011 Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS) 2629 870 Aug 31, 2011 09:18PM  
Every one's Choice: Winners for October 31 29 Sep 30, 2011 06:42AM  
Reading with Style: FA11 20.3 - S/he reads 44 57 Oct 25, 2011 08:24AM  
Challenge: 50 Books: Shibbie's 50 of 2011 11 83 Nov 06, 2011 07:01AM  
Romance Readers R...: The 4 Elements Challenge 253 334 Jan 04, 2012 08:28AM