The Purple Decades
  • Published: 1 November 2005
  • ISBN: 9780099479369
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $32.99
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The Purple Decades

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'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.
  • Published: 1 November 2005
  • ISBN: 9780099479369
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Tom Wolfe

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.

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Also by Tom Wolfe

The Kingdom of Speech
Back to Blood
Hooking Up
The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Right Stuff
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
I Am Charlotte Simmons
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