"The Pump House Gang" 1968 Wolfe, Tom

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WOLFE, Tom

[309] pp.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

1968

8 1/2" x 5 3/4"

Jacket design by Milton Glaser

The … Read more WOLFE, Tom

[309] pp.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

1968

8 1/2" x 5 3/4"

Jacket design by Milton Glaser

The Pump House Gang is a 1968 collection of essays and journalism by Tom Wolfe. The stories in the book explored various aspects of the counterculture of the 1960s. The title essay, is based on a two-part New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine article, The New Life Out There, about Jack Macpherson and his social circle of surfers that congregated at a sewage pump house at Windansea Beach in La Jolla, California. See less