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  The Purple Decades (Paperback) By (author) Tom Wolfe

  

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  Short Description for The Purple DecadesA retrospective collection of Wolfe's work, twenty-one essays and extracts, from 1964 to 1981, running through the whole mad circus of his American subcultures - from Surfers, Acid Freaks, West Side Divorcees and Soho Bohos to Astronauts, Moonies, Manhattan Socialites, Mid-Atlantic Men, Pop Painters and Down-filled People.
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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 20 October 2005
  • Format: Paperback 416 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: General | Literary Studies: From C 1900 - | Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780099479369 ISBN 10: 0099479362
  • Sales rank: 409,808

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Full description for The Purple Decades

• 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.