The Purple Decades

The Purple Decades
First edition
Author	Tom Wolfe
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Anthology
Publisher	Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date	1982
Media type	Print
Pages	396
ISBN	0-224-02944-4
OCLC	9966280

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.

References

Works by Tom Wolfe

Novels	The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) A Man in Full (1998) I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004) Back to Blood (2012)

Non-fiction	The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970) The New Journalism (1975) The Painted Word (1975) The Right Stuff (1979) In Our Time (1980) From Bauhaus to Our House (1981) The Purple Decades (1982)

Essay collections	The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) The Pump House Gang (1968) Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (1976) Hooking Up (2000)

Essays	"Pornoviolence" (1967) "The 'Me' Decade and the Third Great Awakening" (1976) "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast" (1989)

Film adaptations	The Last American Hero (1973) The Right Stuff (1983) The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)

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