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
Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
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.
