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The Purple Decades

A Reader

Tom Wolfe
4.3
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Pages
418
Year
1982
Language
English
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

About

Tom Wolfe's The Purple Decades brings together the author's own selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the complete text of Mau-Mauing and the Flak Catchers, his account of the wild games the poverty program encouraged minority groups to play.

Related Subjects

  • Essays
  • Literary Collections
  • Adult Nonfiction
  • Popular Culture
  • Social Science
  • General
  • American
  • Literary Criticism
  • 20th Century
  • United States
  • History

Reviews

"[The Purple Decades] is a sociologist's dream: a time capsule of ideas and idioms, brand names and places, cult heroes and calling cards."
Ellen Wilson, The Wall Street Journal
"Gorge in this extravagant selection of [Tom Wolfe's] writing, sprinkled with ultra-contemporary cartoons."
Emily Vincent, Houston Chronicle

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