by Tom Wolfe · Círculo de Lectores, 1988, Barcelona. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422627135
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«La hoguera de las vanidades» is Tom Wolfe's satirical novel, published by Círculo de Lectores in 1988 in paperback (795 pages, in Spanish).
Sherman McCoy, a Wall Street broker, sees his perfect life collapse after a car accident in the Bronx with his lover. Tom Wolfe sketches with irony the New York of the eighties: high finance, courts, police, Harlem and religious sects, in a satire on ambition, racism and corruption.
Translation by Enrique Murillo, with an introduction by Mariano Antolín Rato; the original, The Bonfire of the Vanities, was published in 1987. Winner of the Ambassador Book Award 1988.
Recommended for readers who enjoy novels set in the New York of the eighties and social satire.
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.
