{"product_id":"the-kandy-kolored-tangerine-flake-streamline-baby-9780312429126","title":"The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn excellent book by a genius,\" said Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., of this now classic exploration of the 1960s from the founder of new journalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a book that will be a sharp pleasure to reread years from now, when it will bring back, like a falcon in the sky of memory, a whole world that is currently jetting and jazzing its way somewhere or other.\"--Newsweek\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Wolfe\u003c\/b\u003e (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of such contemporary classics as \u003ci\u003eThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Right Stuff\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRadical Chic \u0026amp; Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Bonfire of the Vanities\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Man in Full\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eI Am Charlotte Simmons\u003c\/i\u003e. As a reporter, he wrote articles for \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, and is credited with coining the term \"the Me Decade.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmong his many honors, Wolfe was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.A. at Washington and Lee University, graduating cum laude, and a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale. He lived in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50662155092242,"sku":"9780312429126","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0310c0c2-e55d-451f-b0d0-1b1c3519fc5a.jpg?v=1737245101","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-kandy-kolored-tangerine-flake-streamline-baby-9780312429126","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}