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Tom Wolfe Ambush at Fort Bragg
Random House Audio 4-Aug-97 0553478966 / 9780553478969 Audiobook Cassette New
0553478966 In Tom Wolfe's audio-only Ambush at Fort Bragg, no one escapes the author's satiric barbs. The doughy, rumpled network producer of a hard-hitting 60 M inutes-style TV show dreams of fame, while the limelight always shines inst ead on the tough-as-nails blonde investigative reporter in the perfect silk blouse with every hair always in place. The TV team, in their zeal to get the story, entrap a trio of skinhead gaybashers by having an exotic dancer (with the pitch-perfect name Lola Thong) lure them into a trailer, where hi dden TV cameras capture their unwitting confessions. As usual, Wolfe makes it impossible to predict where your sympathies will land. Actor Edward Nort on gives a delicious reading, especially in capturing the North Carolina dr awls of the guilty men. Book Description He's been called ""the inventor of the New Journalism--and possessor of the age's most distinctive prose style."" Now in this original novella, seria lized to critical acclaim in Rolling Stone magazine in December 1996, Tom W olfe, author of the bestseller The Bonfire of the Vanities, turns his penet rating eye and devastating wit to the world of TV news... As the producer of a prime-time TV newsmagazine, Irv Durtscher fancies himself the Federico Fellini of television journalism. For who else can draw 50 million viewers, satisfy the network's gluttony for profits, and advance the cause of social justice? The only problem is that no one else recognizes Irv's genius. Instead, all the accolades go to the blonde bombshell anchor who won't give balding, near-sighted Irv the time of day. But suddenly Irv has a chance to break the most sensational
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Tom Wolfe The Bonfire of the Vanities
Bantam ISBELL 0553275976 / 9780553275971 Paperback Good
0553275976 Amazon.com After Tom Wolfe defined the '60s in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Rad ical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and the cultural U-turn at the t urn of the '80s in The Right Stuff, nobody thought he could ever top himsel f again. In 1987, when The Bonfire of the Vanities arrived, the literati ca lled Wolfe an ""aging enfant terrible."" He wasn't aging; he was growing up. Bonfire's pyrotechnic satire of 1980s New York wasn't just Wolfe's best book, it was the best bestselling fiction debut of the decade, a miraculously realistic study of an unbelievably status-mad society, from the fiery combatants of the South Bronx to the bubbling scum at the top of Wall Street. Sherman McCoy, a farcically arrogant investment banker (dubbed a ""Master of the Universe,"" Wolfe's brilliant metaphorical co-opting of a then-important toy for boys), hits a black guy in the Bronx with his Mercedes and runs--right into a nightmare peopled by vicious mistresses, thin wives like ""social x-rays,"" slime-bag politicos, tabloid hacks, and Dantesque denizens of the ""justice"" system. If the Coen and Marx brothers together dramatized The Great Gatsby, Wolfe's Bonfire would probably be funnier. Many think his second novel, A Man in Full, is deeper, but Bonfire will never die down.
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