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The Bonfire of the Vanities

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Wolfe, Tom

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Publisher Price: $24.00

ISBN10: 0312427573
ISBN13: 9780312427573
Publisher: Picador
Published: Mar 4 2008
Pages: 704
Weight: 1.21
Height: 1.21 Width: 6.08 Depth: 8.26
Language: English

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.

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