The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1966 • Pocket

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

FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1966] POCKET BOOKS / CARDINAL

Rare 1st paperback printing of Wolfe's 1965 debut in very good condition.

Cover shows wear, some mild creasing and a hint of discoloration.  Binding is tight and despite tanning, pages read beautifully. 

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