The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe [1970 PAPERBACK] • Pocket

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe

SIXTH PAPERBACK PRINTING [1970] POCKET BOOKS

Cover shows wear, a spot of damage and creasing to lower edge on front.  Otherwise very good.  Reads nicely w/ inscription on title page and prev. owner name on front endpaper. 

In his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) Wolfe introduces us to the sixties, to extravagant new styles of life that had nothing to do with the "elite" culture of the past.

In a clatter of detail, a char-broil of savory observation, he captures mad memorabilia, from the neon jungle of Las Vegas (where he saw a mental patient making slot-machine motions with her hand), to the ecstatic carnage of auto-demolition derbies, to the St. Vitus's dance of teen-age pop rock culture, to the world of disk jockeys with its 'comic hysteria' and 'symbolic logic,' to the glossy, silk-slithering sadness of New York's empty young divorcees.... This is a book that will be a sheer 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 " ... might well be required reading in courses with names like American Studies." —Time Magazine