by Tom Wolfe · tapa dura · ISBN 9788473063685
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«La Foguera de les vanitats» is Tom Wolfe's satirical novel, published by El Brot Editorial Pòrtic in hardback (664 pages).
Sherman McCoy, a successful Wall Street bond broker, sees his life fall apart after an accident in the Bronx; the case draws in the courts, the press and New York politics and portrays the city's racial and class tensions in the 1980s.
This 1989 edition corresponds to The Bonfire of the Vanities, a novel Tom Wolfe originally published in 1987.
For readers of literary fiction and social satire, with a scathing critique of ambition and power.
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques. Much of Wolfe's work is satirical and centers on the counterculture of the 1960s and issues related to class, social status, and the lifestyles of the economic and intellectual elites of New York City.
