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Summary: The moments of grandeur and weakness, the aspirations, and the problems of America's astronauts are revealed in an exploration of the dimensions of their inner lives in space, on the moon, and on the earth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.4 WOLWolfe, Tom.
Summary: A satire on America featuring a capitalist trying to avoid ruin. The hero is Charlie Croker of Atlanta whose plantation and skyscraper face repossession by banks for non-repayment of a loan. One way out might be to request leniency in return for hushing up a rape.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLWolfe, Tom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.4 WOLWolfe, Tom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1968
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 WOLWolfe, Tom.
Summary: As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay -- with our hero, Officer Nestor Camacho, on board -- Tom Wolfe is off and running headlong into the only city in the world where people from a different country with a different language and a different culture have taken over at the ballot box. This melting pot is full of hard cases who just won't melt, damn it: a Cuban mayor; a black...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2012
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WOLWolfe, Tom.
Summary: A colorful cast of residents and visitors to Miami go about their daily activities, both legal and illegal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wolfe 2012Wolfe, Tom.
Summary: Sherman McCoy, a young investment banker in Manhattan, finds himself arrested following a freak accident and becomes involved with prosecutors, politicians, the press, and assorted hustlers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus 1987
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Summary: Tom Wolfe's best-selling modern classic tells the story of Sherman McCoy, an elite Wall Street bond trader who has it all: wealth, power, prestige, a Park Avenue apartment, a beautiful wife, and an even more beautiful mistress—until one wrong turn sends Sherman spiraling downward in a humiliating fall from grace. A car accident in the Bronx involving Sherman, his girlfriend, and two young...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2009
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Wolfe, Tom.
Summary: One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they launched out on the "Transcontinental Bus Tour" from the West Coast to New York, all the while introducing acid (then legal) to hundreds of like-minded folks,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.29 WOLWolfe, Tom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2000