by Tom Wolfe · Editorial Anagrama S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433920546
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«La hoguera de las vanidades» is Tom Wolfe's satirical novel, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (640 pages, in Spanish).
Sherman McCoy, a Wall Street broker, sees his life collapse after getting lost one night in the Bronx with his mistress. Tom Wolfe crafts a satire of 1980s New York: finance and high society versus the courts, the police, Harlem and religious sects; a story of ambition, racism and corruption.
Volume 50 of Compactos Anagrama, translated by Enrique Murillo. The work was published in 1987 as «The Bonfire of the Vanities» and won the Ambassador Book Award in 1988.
Readers of contemporary fiction and social satire interested in the urban portrait of 1980s New York.
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.
