The Purple Decades

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The Purple Decades
Author	Tom Wolfe
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Anthology
Publisher	Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date	1982
Media type	Print
Pages	396
ISBN	ISBN 0224029444

The Purple Decades: A Reader is a collection of the non-fiction writing of Tom Wolfe, published in 1982. The book contains 20 pieces of Wolfe's best-known writing.

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v • d • e Works by Tom Wolfe Novels: The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) • A Man in Full (1998) • I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004) • Back to Blood (expected 2009) Non-fiction: The Purple Decades • From Bauhaus to Our House • In Our Time • The Right Stuff • The Painted Word • The New Journalism • Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Essay collections: Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine • The Pump House Gang • The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby • Hooking Up (inc. a novella) Essays: "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast" Film adaptations: The Right Stuff (1983) • The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (2009)