The Purple Decades

The Purple Decades
1st edition
Author(s)	Tom Wolfe
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Anthology
Publisher	Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date	1982
Media type	Print
Pages	396
ISBN	0224029444
OCLC Number	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 (1976) • Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast (1989)

Film adaptations	The Last American Hero (1973) • The Right Stuff (1983) • The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (2011)