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The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City, and centers on three main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish assistant district attorney Larry Kramer, and British expatriate journalist Peter Fallow. The novel was ...
Mar 4, 2008 · Tom Wolfe's modern American satire tells the story of Sherman McCoy, a Wall Street "Master of the Universe" who has it all -- a Park Avenue apartment, a job that brings wealth, power and prestige, a beautiful wife, an even more beautiful mistress.
Nov 1, 1987 · The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City, and centers on three main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish assistant district attorney Larry Kramer, and British expatriate journalist Peter Fallow. The ...
Dec 1, 1988 · Tom Wolfe’s modern American satire tells the story of Sherman McCoy, a Wall Street “Master of the Universe” who has it all — a Park Avenue apartment, a job that brings wealth, power and prestige, a beautiful wife, an even more beautiful mistress.
Dec 1, 1990 · The Bonfire of the Vanities Hardcover – Bargain Price, December 1, 1990. by Tom Wolfe (Author) 4.4 4,699 ratings. See all formats and editions. Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan.
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Mar 4, 2008 · ISBN. 9780312427573. In The News. “A big, bitter, funny, craftily plotted book that grabs you by the lapels and won't let you go.” — The New York Times Book Review. “ The Bonfire of the Vanities chronicles the collapse of a Wall Street bond trader, and examines a world in which fortunes are made and lost at the blink of a computer screen. . . .
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.
Jun 21, 2018 · An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American prose....
by Tom Wolfe ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 9, 1987. bookshelf. shop now. Sheer entertainment against a fabulous background, proving that late-blooming first-novelist Wolfe, a superobserver of the social scene ( The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers ), has the right stuff for fiction.
Feb 21, 2002 · The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel. Tom Wolfe. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Feb 21, 2002 - Fiction - 704 pages. Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that...
