Tom Wolfe In Our Time

$4.00
Softcover
- Over Sized 119 pages
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux - First Ed.
ISBN- 0-374-51659-6
Condition - Acceptable - small tear on top, a few stain spots

Rumbling through In Our Time like an indoor temblor is the shifting moral terrain of America. Tom Wolfe introduces us to the inhabitants of this cockeyed landscape-The New Cookie, "the girl in her twenties for whom the American male now customarily shucks his wife of two to four decades, when the electrolysis gullies appear above her upper lip" . . . The Modern Mother, who is more childish than her children: "Puh-leeze, Mummy, nobody wants to hear about coke, Acapulco, or Fleetwood Mac". . . The Fondly Trusting Father as he first opens the door to his daughter's coed dorm room: "Two pairs of eyes pop up in the bed, blazing like raccoons at night, illuminating the shanks, flanks, glistening haunches, and cloven declivities of a boy and girl joined mons-to-mons" . . . The jaded Teenager, burnt out by eighteen: "I got this supervisor where I work-these middle-age people, man, all they think about is sex and dope.