The Bonfire of the Vanities by Wolfe, Tom
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Wolfe, Tom

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New...
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Author: Tom Wolfe
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The Bonfire of the Vanities by Wolfe, Tom

The Bonfire of the Vanities

$43.49
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Wolfe, Tom

The Bonfire of the Vanities

$43.49
Author: Tom Wolfe
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style.

"No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton" (The National Review)

"A page-turner . . . Brilliant high comedy." (The New Republic)

Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him, licking their chops and giving us a gargantuan helping of the human comedy, of New York in the 1980s, a city boiling over with racial and ethnic hostilities and burning with the itch to Grab It Now.

Wolfe's novel is a big, panoramic story of the metropolis that reinforces the author's reputation as the foremost chronicler of the way we live in America.

Adapted to film in 1990 by director Brian De Palma, the movie stars Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Morgan Freeman.

Author: Tom Wolfe
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 03/04/2008
Pages: 704
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 8.26h x 6.08w x 1.21d
ISBN: 9780312427573


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/01/2008 pg. 118
Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 102
Entertainment Weekly 10/25/2013 pg. 103

About the Author

Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. As a reporter, he wrote articles for The Washington Post, the New York Herald Tribune, Esquire, and New York magazine, and is credited with coining the term, "The Me Decade."

Among his many honors, Tom was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.A. at Washington and Lee University, graduating cum laude, and a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale. He lived in New York City.
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