The Pump House Gang

The Pump House Gang
AuthorTom Wolfe
LanguageEnglish
GenreNew Journalism
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date
August 1968
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages320 pp

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,[1] about Jack Macpherson and his social circle of surfers that congregated at a sewage pump house at Windansea Beach in La Jolla, California.[2]

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  2. ^ "'60s surfer co-founded group noted in Wolfe's 'Pump House Gang'". Chicago Sun-Times. 2006-12-01. Archived from the original on 2007-10-11. Retrieved 2007-06-11.