Mauve Gloves Madmen, Clutter Vine: And Other Stories, Sketches, and Essays [Paperback]

A collection of impeccably observed stories, sketches, and essays in full, exuberant, classic Wolfe mode.

Originally published in 1976, these stories, essays, and illustrations capture the full spectrum of the 70s (the Me Decade, in Wolfes memorable words), from the hilarious to the hard-hitting. Reissued for todays reader, the third installment in Wolfes trilogy of essay-length works afterThe Pump House GangandThe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby,Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vineis wide-ranging, irreverent, colorful, and gimlet-eyed.

Tom Wolfe(19302018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of more than a dozen books, including such contemporary classics asThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,The Right Stuff, andRadical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novelsThe Bonfire of the Vanities,A Man in Full, andI Am Charlotte Simmons. He is credited with coining the term the Me Decade. Among his many honors, he was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Prize, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lived in New York City.

No one is as good as Wolfe on the contradictions between cushy class and angry consciousness . . . There essays . . . offer a lively picture of the surface of our society' one wishes life were this interesting. Jack Beatty, The Nation

This book serves as a reminder of how often Wolfe's refusal to be respectful toward any subject has produced both illumination and laughter. Time

Mr. Wolfe tackles all sorts of subjects ranging from life on an aircraft carrier (brilliantly described) to the goings-on at a convention of National Enquirer freelance writers . . . The master of trivia also offers an underlying theme lój