by Tom Wolfe
Don’t let the title fool you. Hooking Up addresses the changing sexual mores of our time, but Tom Wolfe’s social commentary moves way beyond the physical.
Wolfe tips his hat to authors Robert Lacey and Danny Danzinger. Their book, The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman’s World, introduced Wolfe to “life on the streets” in that era. Intrigued, Wolfe began to consider how future generations might look back on the turn of the Second Millennium.
Hooking Up is his attempt to explain that epoch to those who wonder, “What was life like in the year 2000?” These pages exhibit Wolf'e’s careful research, clever wit, and formidable style.
Hooking Up is social critique and commentary. It is never “just facts,” but always paragraphs and pages with a beating heart.
