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The purple decades : a reader  Cover Image Book Book

The purple decades : a reader / Tom Wolfe ; selected by Tom Wolfe.

Wolfe, Tom. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0374239274
  • Physical Description: xv, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, [1982]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Bob & Spike -- The last American hero -- The voices of Village Square -- Purveyor of public life -- A Sunday kind of love -- The girl of the year -- The woman who has everything -- The pump house gang -- The Mid-Atlantic man -- On the bus (from The electric kool-aid acid test) -- These radical chic evenings (from Radical chic) -- Mau-mauing the flak catchers -- The truest sport: jousting with Sam and Charlie -- The me decade and the third great awakening -- The intelligent coed's guide to America -- Mauve gloves & madmen, clutter & vine -- Vignettes -- The Apache dance (from The painted word) -- The white gods (from The Bauhaus to our house) -- The angels ; Yeager (from The right stuff)
Subject: Popular culture > United States.
United States > Social life and customs.
Genre: Short stories.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Lehigh Valley Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Allentown Public Library System.

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Allentown Public Library 813.54 WOLF (Text) 34455000210498 Adult Nonfiction 1st FL Available -


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