Book description
In Hooking Up Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, observing
the 'lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on
earth in the year 2000' - everything from teenage sexual manners to
how genetics and neuroscience are changing the way we regard
ourselves. Also included in this collection are some of his most
classic and enduring pieces of journalism, and 'Ambush art at Fort
Bragg', his fiercely satirical novella about sting TV.
Funny, often savagely so, hard-hitting and wise, Wolfe remains a
unique master-chronicler of America and its future.
Tom Wolfe is the author of more than a dozen books, among them
The
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the
Vanities, A Man in Full,
and
I Am Charlotte Simmons
. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his BA at Washington and Lee
University and a PhD in American studies at Yale. He lives in New York
City.
