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"Tom Wolfe is the living writer I most admire. I used to read this book on my knee in maths at school. He does things with words that make me think: ‘How did he do that?’ He made me realise that writing for newspapers and magazines was a great calling. I never tire of reading Tom Wolfe. He is also a man of supreme personal style and irreverence; he never cares who he offends. About? Well, it’s about 1960s Americ cars, kids, pop culture. He was one of the inventors of the New Journalism. We don’t need to write fiction! We can write journalism in the first person with incredible observation! This is not a novel but to call it journalism makes it sound slight. It isn’t. This is a masterpiece of the New Journalism. Get the weekly Five Books newsletter"