{"id":88361,"date":"2018-05-15T23:28:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tom-wolfe-obituary-a-great-dandy-in-elaborate-dress-and-neon-lit-prose\/"},"modified":"2018-05-16T00:03:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:03:43","slug":"tom-wolfe-obituary-a-great-dandy-in-elaborate-dress-and-neon-lit-prose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tom-wolfe-obituary-a-great-dandy-in-elaborate-dress-and-neon-lit-prose\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Wolfe obituary: a great dandy, in elaborate dress and neon-lit prose"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nJournalist and author who won a name as a brilliant satirist with the \u2018novel of the 1980s\u2019, The Bonfire of the VanitiesThe writer Tom Wolfe, who has died aged 88, was a great dandy, both in his elaborate dress and his neon-lit prose. Although he was in his late 50s when he became a bestselling novelist, with The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), some 30 years before that he was already famous as a journalist, was indeed that extremely rare thing, the journalist as international celebrity.It was a part Wolfe played up to, wearing showy tailor-made white suits, summer and winter, as well as fancy headgear and shirts with detachable collars. The overall impression was of a fashionplate from a bygone age. The sartorial fireworks fitted in very well with the highly eccentric literary style Wolfe used and which made such a name for him when he published The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965), which brought the world the first news of the 1960s counterculture in California. Continue reading…
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