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He impales trends and fads, pretensions and swaggerings, with needle-sharp wit

Sunday Times

A great example of how the genre cocked a snook at journalistic convention

Metro

Tom Wolfe is a terrific writer

Washington Monthly

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, or jazzing, its way to somewhere or other

Newsweek

You only had to look at him… or read such books as The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Right Stuff to know that Tom Wolfe was like no other

John Pye, The Scotsman

Journalism, it is said, is the first draft of history. Nobody exemplifies the dictum better than Wolfe, the cultural observer and social critic par excellence

Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph

Effortlessly, elegantly, Tom Wolfe bestrode both fiction and non-fiction… a style at once objective, subjective, and hallucinatory

Andy Martin, Independent

[Tom Wolfe’s] gleeful use of punctuation and italics, along with entertaining asides and neologisms that often quickly cemented themselves into the English lexicon, helped Wolfe stand out from other journalists

Guardian

[Wolfe] made literature fun and bores don’t like fun

Freddy Gray, The Catholic Herald

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

He impales trends and fads, pretensions and swaggerings, with needle-sharp wit

Sunday Times

Might well be required reading in courses with names like American studies

TIME Magazine