The Purple Decades
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Purple Decades
By (Author) Tom Wolfe
Vintage Publishing
Vintage
1st November 2005
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
813.54
Physical Properties
Paperback
416
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 25mm
288g
Description
'The inventor of New Journalism-wielding his terrible swift satirist sword' Newsweek 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.
Reviews
"'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.
