The Purple Decades: A Reader

The essential collection of Tom Wolfe’s writing on a turning-point era in modern American culture, newly repackaged and reissued with the original introduction by Joe David Bellamy.

It was in the 1960s and 1970s—those “purple decades”—that Tom Wolfe rose to fame as one of the late-twentieth-century pioneers of American literature. He became the foremost chronicler of the gaudiest period in American history, much of which is spread out before us in these selections from nine of his books.

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