‘The quintessential novel of The Eighties’ – The Guardian Read moreĪ noisy satire on Manhattan’s Wall Street cash-bloated plutocracy… Hugely readable. ‘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 Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians and clergy close in on him, determined to bring him down.Įxuberant, 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. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in a hit-and-run accident in the Bronx. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American prose
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