Purple Decades

• Author: Tom Wolfe
• ISBN 10: 0140070729
• ISBN 13: 9780140070729
• Release: September 27, 1984
• Format: Paperback (416 pages)
• List Price: Unknown
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  Tags: Literature & Fiction, History & Criticism, Movements & Periods,

  Book Description:
  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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