{"product_id":"9781784873721","title":"The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby","description":"\u003cp\u003eTom Wolfe's debut collection of essays - a brilliant, form-bending dive into the future of America as it careened through the 1960s \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1965, Tom Wolfe dropped like a bomb onto the American literary scene with his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, an incandescent panorama of American counter-culture, its dances, bouffant hairdos, customised cars and rock concerts. Capturing the energy of the age in its portraits of Phil Spector, Cassius Clay, Las Vegas and the Nanny Mafia - as well as asking, why do doormen hate Volkswagens? - Wolfe's flamboyant essay collection remains one of the great, revolutionary landmarks of modern non-fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'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' Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49643033526520,"sku":"EB_LI0700_E09-08_SYDNEY","price":25.94,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9781784873721-1.jpg?v=1783741945","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9781784873721","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}