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Loading... Hooking Up (2000)by Tom Wolfe
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. some decent stories in here. I particularly liked the intel one, but I have no idea how they all really tie together. ( ) Tom Wolfe may dress up like Mark Twain, but Tom Wolfe’s a sheep in Twain’s clothing. That said, Tom Wolfe — in Hooking Up — gives a riotous performance. From Silicon Valley to the halls of the hallowed “New Yorker” Magazine, Wolfe sheds light: much-needed and much-appreciated light. There are gems in this book, but you’ve got to know how to spot them. Wolfe’s prose is edgy, amusing, straightforward — and a joy to read. He just ain’t Twain, Huck. (But then, nobody is except Samuel Clemens himself.) RRB 04/16/11 Brooklyn, NY, USA no reviews | add a review
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From the Publisher: 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.' From teenage sexual manners and mores to fundamental changes in the way human beings now regard themselves thanks to the hot new fields of genetics and neuroscience; from his legendary profile of William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker (first published in 1965), to a remarkable portrait of Bob Noyce, the man who invented Silicon Valley, Tom Wolfe the master of reportage and satire returns in vintage form. No library descriptions found. |
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