The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby is the title of Tom Wolfe's first collected book of essays, published in 1965. The book is named for one of the stories in the collection that was originally published in Esquire magazine in 1963 under the title "There Goes That Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby Around the Bend …" Wolfe's essay for Esquire and this, his first book, are frequently heralded as early examples of New Journalism. In the introduction to the book, Wolfe says that when writing the titular essay for Esquire in 1963, a look at the world of custom...
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Author:Tom Wolfe
Genre:Anthology, Essay
Year published:1965
Number of editions:7

Author

Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe
Age:81
Birthplace:Richmond, Virginia
Education:St. Christopher's School, Yale University

Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr. is a best-selling American author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Wolfe was born in Richmond, Virginia, the son of Louise , a landscape designer, and Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Sr., an agronomist. Wolfe...
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Additional works by Tom Wolfe
BookGenre
A Man in Full Fiction
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Sociology
The Bonfire of the Vanities Fiction
The Right Stuff Science
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers Fiction
The Painted Word
From Bauhaus to Our House
The Purple Decades Anthology
In Our Time
Back to Blood Novel
The New Journalism Non-fiction
I Am Charlotte Simmons Fiction
The Pump House Gang Sociology
Hooking Up Anthology
Carving Fancy Walking Sticks
Ambush at Fort Bragg Fiction
Le Gauchisme de Park Avenue
The Easter bunny and his friends
Frederick Hart
75 Santa patterns
Carving Down-Home Angels With Tom Wolfe
Creative canes & walking sticks
Carving desperados with Tom Wolfe
Carving Santa Ornaments With Tom Wolfe
Carving wizards with Tom Wolfe
108 animal patterns
Basic Penknife Carving With Tom Wolfe
Kandy - Colored Tangerine - Flake
Power carving house spirits with Tom Wolfe
90 patterns for dog carvers
Country flat carving with Tom Wolfe
86 cane patterns for the woodcarver
Santa and his friends
Out to the ball game
Traditional Santa carving with Tom Wolfe
Carving bears and bunnies
Power carving Santas with Tom Wolfe
Carving cigar humidors with Tom Wolfe
Carving a kid's size rocking horse
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine
Tom Wolfe's Treasury of Patterns
Carving from Roughouts With Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe goes to the dogs
The yam Yankee & other veggie carving projects
Soy Charlotte Simmons Fiction
Ein ganzer Kerl.
Le Bucher DES Vanites
Our True Stay Poetry
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine
La Izquierda Exquisita
Words of Ages
Ognisko Proznosci
Unter Strom
Ponche de Acido Lisergico
Carving Gnomes With Tom Wolfe
Carving out the Wild West with Tom Wolfe
Caricatures in clay with Tom Wolfe
El Coqueto, Aerodinamico Rocanrol Color Caramelo De Ron
Santimals
La Palabra Pintada
Lo Que Hay Que Tener
Quien Teme Al Bauhaus Feroz?
Through the looking glass with Tom Wolfe
Selected from The right stuff
La Hoguera de Las Vanidades
Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy Classic Rock & Pop Writing from Elvis to Oasis
mid-Atlantic man and other new breeds in England and America
La Banda de La Casa de La Bomba
Le Mot peint
Two complete books
Rolling Stone
Underneath the I-Beams. Sequel to the Painted Word
El Peridismo Canalla Y Otros Articulos
Mit dem Bauhaus leben
Horse carving with Tom Wolfe
golfers
Sam et Charlie vont en bateau
bonbonfarbene tangerinrot-gespritzte Stromlinienbaby
Country carving
Todo un hombre
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Literary Genres

Anthology
Anthology

An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts. In...
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Essay
Essay

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    The book "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby" is in what literary genre?
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    The written work is categorized as: Anthropology and Sociology.
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    The work was first distributed in 1965.

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