The Purple Decades - Hardcover
A retrospective collection of needle-sharp pieces.
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'The inventor of New Journalism-wielding his terrible swift satirist sword' -- Newsweek
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Tom Wolfe is 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. He lives in NewYork City.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0224029444
- ISBN 13 9780224029445
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages416
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Book Description 8vo hardcover 397pp very good. / Good yellowed d/w with stain on top edge. In the 1960s and the 1970s Tom Wolfe rose to fame as the foremost chronicler of the gaudiest period in American history. It began at a hot rod and custom car show where he marvelled at the little nest of pink angora angel's hair used for the purpose of. Seller Inventory # 62768
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Book Description Hardback. Before he became a best-selling novelist (The Bonfire of the Vanities), Tom Wolfe was an essayist and keen observer of 1960s and 1970s culture for Esquire and Rolling Stone. (This is the man who coined the phrase Me Decade, after all.) This ear-candy collection of 20 essays and articles narrated by Edoardo Ballerini was handpicked by Wolfe and includes some of his best-known nonfiction work. These must-listens include profiles of astronaut Chuck Yeager (who also appears in Wolfe's The Right Stuff) and model-turned-Warhol-superstar Baby Jane Holzer. Part cultural anthropologist and part social observer, Wolfe conquers the worlds of modern art, high fashion, surfing, and stock-car racing with equal aplomb. No dustjacket, notes on half title {"length"=>["25"], "width"=>["16"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}. Seller Inventory # 18560090
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. FINE hardcover book in NEAR FINE- dust-jacket. Closed tears at the top of each panel.Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves. Seller Inventory # SKU1030981
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First UK Edition. Purple/gilt cloth hardback - fading to top and bottom of front and rear covers. DJ is wearing/soiled/edge-torn. xvi + 397pp., including b/w illustrations. Despite fading flaws, Good. Seller Inventory # 4298
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