Lone Wolfe

From: Human Events | Date: February 12, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

Hooking Up, by Tom Wolfe. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 288 pages, $25

TOM WOLFE HAS BEEN ON A LONELY crusade for more than a decade. His repeated calls for a return to realism in American fiction have largely gone unanswered. Makes you wonder.

Thirteen years ago, after a 25-year career as one of the most prominent, and probably the best non-fiction writer in America, Wolfe pubfished his first big realistic novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities. The reviews were mixed (the consensus among the complainers seemed to be: brilliantly plotted, devastatingly accurate, uproariously funny, lacks ...

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