The purple decades : a reader / Tom Wolfe ; selected by Tom Wolfe.
| Author/creator | Wolfe, Tom |
| Other author | Wolfe, Tom inscriber. |
| Other author | Wright, Stuart, 1948- former owner. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, ©1982. |
| Description | xv, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Bob & Spike -- The last American hero -- The voices of Village Square -- Purveyor of the public life -- A Sunday kind of love -- The girl of the year -- The woman who has everything -- The pump house gang -- The Mid-Adlantic 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 From Bauhaus to Our House) -- The angels (from The Right Stuff) -- Yeager (from The Right Stuff). |
| Abstract | This collection of Wolfe's essays, articles, and chapters from previous collections is filled with observations on U.S. popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s. |
| Local note | Inscribed on title page "To Stuart Wright. Tom Wolfe." Includes dust jacket. Laid in is a bookmark with a description and illustration of "The stone effigy of a 14th century knight in St. Mary's Church, Puddletown." Stuart Wright Book Collection #170.33. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Tom Wolfe Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2012 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Wolfe, Tom. Purple decades. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, ©1982 |
| LCCN | 82011879 |
| ISBN | 0374239274 |
| ISBN | 9780374239275 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | Stuart Wright Collection | PS3573.O526 P8 1982 | ✔ Available | Request Material |