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The Purple Decades: A Reader (Unabridged)
Before he became a best-selling novelist ( The Bonfire of the Vanities ), Tom Wolfe was an essayist and keen observer of 1960s and 1970s culture for Esquire and Rolling Stone .
About The Purple Decades: A Reader (Unabridged)
Before he became a best-selling novelist ( The Bonfire of the Vanities ), Tom Wolfe was an essayist and keen observer of 1960s and 1970s culture for Esquire and Rolling Stone . (This is the man who coined the phrase "Me Decade", after all.) This ear-candy collection of 20 essays and articles narrated by Edoardo Ballerini was handpicked by Wolfe and includes some of his best-known nonfiction work. These must-listens include profiles of astronaut Chuck Yeager (who also appears in Wolfe’s The Right Stuff) and model-turned-Warhol-superstar Baby Jane Holzer. Part cultural anthropologist and part social observer, Wolfe conquers the worlds of modern art, high fashion, surfing, and stock-car racing with equal aplomb.
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