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The Pump House Gang is a 1968 collection of essays and journalism by Tom Wolfe. The stories in the book explored various aspects of the counterculture of the 1960s . The title essay, is based on a two-part New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine article, The New Life Out There , [1] about Jack Macpherson and his social circle of ...
“The Pump House Gang” follows a group of teenage surfers in La Jolla, California. Wolfe describes how these kids have set up their own lifestyle of surfing and hanging out-they’re a prime example of the subcultures he examines throughout the book.
10 de sept. de 2009 · Wolfe, Tom. Publication date. 1968. Topics. Social status. Publisher. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Collection. printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; americana.
Running throughout The Pump House Gang is the central theme of most of Tom Wolfe’s writing: Status. Much of the book deals with a surprising phenomenon in contemporary life: a determined retreat from conventional social hierarchies that Tom Wolfe calls “starting your own league.”
The Pump House Gang. Tom Wolfe. Picador, Oct 25, 2022 - Literary Collections - 320 pages. A sprawling collection of essays about the subcultures of the 1960s by Tom Wolfe, the revolutionary...
15 de jul. de 2022 · Introduction -- The pump house gang -- The mid-Atlantic man -- King of the status dropouts -- The put-together girl -- The noonday underground -- The mild ones -- The hair boys -- What if he is right?
25 de oct. de 2022 · The Pump House Gang. A sprawling collection of essays about the subcultures of the 1960s by Tom Wolfe, the revolutionary journalist and novelist When Tom Wolfe smashed his way into the...
