In Our Time

by Tom Wolfe

Overview

Reissued for today's reader with a cover by renowned artist Seymour Chwast, In Our Timeis a biting collection of Tom Wolfe’s essays and illustrations on 1980s America.

In Our Time is a biting collection of Tom Wolfe’s essays and illustrations cataloging and critiquing the state of 1980s American society. In this slim but unsparing collection of razor sharp observations and mordant caricatures, Wolfe reaffirms his role as the great chronicler, debunker, and exuberant plainspeaker of American letters. Wolfe’s joyriding satirical tour through the emerging American archetypes of the 1980s is an essential portrait of the delirious, madding decade.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250352620
Publisher:	Picador
Publication date:	02/04/2025
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Tom Wolfe (1930–2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of contemporary classics like The Right Stuff and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. As a reporter, he wrote articles for The Washington Post, the New York Herald Tribune, Esquire, and New York Magazine, and is credited with coining the term, “The Me Decade.” Among his many honors, Tom was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lived in New York City.

Hometown:

New York, New York

Date of Birth:

March 2, 1931

Place of Birth:

Richmond, Virginia

Education:

B.A. (cum laude), Washington and Lee University, 1951; Ph.D. in American Studies, Yale University, 1957

Website:

http://www.tomwolfe.com