The Purple Decades

The Purple Decades

by TomWolfe (Author)

Synopsis

The Purple Decades brings together the author's own selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the best from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Radical Chic, From Bauhaus to Our House, The Right Stuff and the complete text of Mau-Mauing and the Flak Catchers. An essential introduction to the non-fiction writing of the inventor of New Journalism.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 20 Oct 2005

ISBN 10: 0099479362
ISBN 13: 9780099479369
Book Overview: 'The inventor of New Journalism-wielding his terrible swift satirist sword' Newsweek

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'The inventor of New Journalism...wielding his terrible swift satirist sword' Newsweek
Author Bio
Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, I Am Charlotte Simmons and Back to Blood. He received the National Book Foundation's 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.