The Bonfire of the Vanities (Birthday Edition) by Tom Wolfe

The Bonfire of the Vanities (Birthday Edition) by Tom Wolfe

The Bonfire of the Vanities is a masterpiece, a riotous, exuberant and passionate epic that captures the greed and corruption of eighties New York and examines it under the microscope of Wolfe's famed satiric wit.Sherman McCoy, Wall Street wunderkind, seems to have it all; a salary like a telephone number, a home on Park Avenue, a beautiful wife and child, a mistress, a Mercedes. He is a Master of the Universe! But then he gets lost one dark night in the Bronx, and his mercedes hits something. That something turns out to be Henry Lamb, a young black man who is now in a coma; for Sherman meanwhile, everything is about to unravel so fast he will hardly have time to change his thousand dollar suit.'One of the funniest, finest and most dramatic American novels of recent times . . . the most enthralling book I've read in years'EVENING STANDARD

'One of the funniest, finest and most dramatic American novels of recent times.. the most enthralling book l've read in years' EVENING STANDARD

Tom Wolfe (b. 1931) is an American journalist and author. He worked for The Washington Post and The New York Herald Tribune, amongst others. There, he experimented with a new genre which he called New Journalism, in which journalists experiment with the use of literary devices in their news reporting. His first work of fiction, The Bonfire of the Vanities, was published in 1987.

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ISBN 13	9780330491938
ISBN 10	0330491938
Title	The Bonfire of the Vanities (Birthday Edition)
Author	Tom Wolfe
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2002-08-20
Number of pages	752
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