The Pump House Gang
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Tom Wolfe
The Pump House Gang
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1968.
First printing.
With his own illustrations, this is only Wolfe's third book and his first serious grappling with the nitty-gritty of status in his adopted New York.
He has a fine touch describing the social parameters of the the rich and powerful, as well as identifying the seismic shift in 60s America away from the Mom-and-Pop values of the previous generation towards the freedom of the Me generations to come.
Very good stuff, highly entertaining and impressively before its time, although already parts sound bizarrely dated.
Jacket, designed by Milton Glaser, has minor edge wear.
Hardcover.