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Title: Essays and Sketches
Review: This short book is basically a collection of a number of Tom Wolfe's social drawings and a couple of his essays, first published in 1980. The drawings have much the same clever humor and satire of his writing. There is not really a common thread for the book's content. For those who are fans of Tom Wolfe, you'll find this to be essential reading. For those less familiar with his work, I'd recommend starting somewhere else. For essays, try "Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers" and "The Painted Word." His novels are all excellent--any of them are a great place to start whether its "Man in Full," "Bonfire of the Vanities," or one of the others. He is really one of the top writers in the US.
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