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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 ...
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” 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.
15 de jul. de 2022 · x, 309 pages : 22 cm. 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? -- Bob and Spike -- Tom Wolfe's new book of etiquette -- The life & hard times of a teenage London society girl ...
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...
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...
25 de oct. de 2022 · The Pump House Gang. Tom Wolfe. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968 - Social Science - 309 pages. Tom Wolfe's second collection (1968) takes it title from a redoubtable surfing elite, many of...
