In Our Time

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In Our Time is a biting collection of Tom Wolfe's essays and illustrations cataloging and critiquing the state of 1980s American society. In this slim but unsparing collection of razor sharp observations and mordant caricatures, Wolfe reaffirms his role as the great chronicler, debunker, and exuberant plainspeaker of American letters. Wolfe's joyriding satirical tour through the emerging American archetypes of the 1980s is an essential portrait of the delirious, madding decade.

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Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was the author of more than a dozen books and one of the founders of the New Journalism movement. He is credited with coining the term "the Me Decade." Among his many honors, he was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Prize, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lived in New York City.