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The Pump House Gang is a 1968 collection of essays and journalism by Tom Wolfe. The stories in the book explored various aspects of the counterculture of the 1960s.
- Tom Wolfe
- 1968
“The Pump House Gang” follows a group of teenage surfers in La Jolla, California. Wolfe describes how these kids have set up their own lifestyle of surfing and hanging out-they’re a prime example of the subcultures he examines throughout the book.
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15 lug 2022 · Introduction -- The pump house gang -- The mid-Atlantic man -- King of the status dropouts -- The put-together girl -- The noonday underground -- The mild ones -- The hair boys -- What if he is right?
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10 set 2009 · The pump house gang. by. Wolfe, Tom. Publication date. 1968. Topics. Social status. Publisher. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Running throughout The Pump House Gang is the central theme of most of Tom Wolfe’s writing: Status. Much of the book deals with a surprising phenomenon in contemporary life: a determined retreat from conventional social hierarchies that Tom Wolfe calls “starting your own league.”
5 ott 1999 · It's the tragic account of a teenage couple (he 18, she 21) whose lives came to an abrupt halt at the pump house at Windansea beach. She a victim of "if I can't have her nobody will" and he the last thing that gun in his mouth saw.
- Tom Wolfe
