HOWLING WOLFE.(Review) (book review)

Tom Wolfe, Hooking Up. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000.293 pages, $25.

COMMANDING EASY BRAND RECOGNITION in his high-maintenance southern gentleman drag (white suit, patent pumps, and spats) and now pushing seventy, "America's maestro reporter/novelist" is still at it, tracking the zeitgeist in his retro getup. Marrying giddiness with cynicism, Tom Wolfe deploys the mannered showmanship of a circus ringmaster or a Robin Leach--and way too many ellipses ... italics... and exclamation points! A photo of the man in full graces... the back of the book! As he ...

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