The Purple Decades

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Purple Decades
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Tom Wolfe
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:416
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreBiographies and autobiography
Literary studies - from c 1900 -
Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780099479369
ClassificationsDewey:813.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Vintage Publishing
Imprint Vintage
Publication Date 20 October 2005
Publication Country United Kingdom

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.

Author Biography

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.

Reviews

"'The inventor of New Journalism...wielding his terrible swift satirist sword' Newsweek"