The Bonfire of the Vanities
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4.4 • 23 Ratings
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American prose.
Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in a hit-and-run accident in the Bronx. Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians and clergy close in on him, determined to bring him down.
Exuberant, scandalous and exceptionally discerning, The Bonfire of the Vanities was Tom Wolfe's first venture into fiction and cemented his reputation as the foremost chronicler of his age.
'The air of New York crackles with an energy that causes the adrenalin to pump... The feeling is perfectly reproduced in Wolfe's novel... Electric' Sunday Times
'The quintessential novel of The Eighties' The Guardian
Customer Reviews
Classic Wolfe
Telling, hilarious, excellent etc etc
Bonfire of the vanities
Tom Wolfe wanted to write an epic portraying New York in exquisite detail .
It is good that he waited until the bond boom of the ‘80s to have the time. It has been said that Tom Wolfe’s picture is New York, rather than New York itself being the picture one would see. It is up to us to see for ourselves, and now it is 40 years later. If someone had written such a chronicle of Donald Trump’s reign
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Fantastic
The cleverest novel I have ever read. The character development is exceptional, every page had me noting down comments, about how it tied in to the rest of the story, and its themes. Every page was a note in the song that is TBOTV.