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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]
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