Hurling meets The Right Stuff

The great Tom Wolfe passed away last week. Master of the masters of the universe, he was 88, and if his last book was an oddity — The Kingdom Of Speech, really? — some of its predecessors are well known to you, gentle reader, writes Michael Moynihan.

Take the likes of The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities as starting points.

You may be more familiar with the film of the former (and hopefully less familiar with the film of the latter) but they both give a good idea of the Wolfe style, which is headlong, verbose and never knowingly under-punctuated.