The Purple Decades - Softcover

Wolfe, Tom

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140070729 ISBN 13: 9780140070729

Publisher: Penguin, 1984

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396 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. The Only Exception Top Of Last Few Pages Are Slightly 'crumpled' ;possible Light Water Damage.

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

Synopsis:

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 "glamourous" display. It grew - with his fascination for the Las Vegas-style neon sculpture boom and its electro-pastel surge through the suburbs - into "the kandy-kolored tangerine - flake streamline baby" and the new journalism was born. Wolfe's innovations in style, his feats as a reporter and his insights into sections of America which now had the money to build monuments to their enthusiasms, dominated a period of widespread experimentaiton in the writing of non-fiction. This book describes this period in Wolfe's life.

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