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Author | Tom Wolfe |
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Language | English |
Genre | New Journalism |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
Publication date | August 1968 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 320 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]