by Tom Wolfe · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099548799
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«The Bonfire of the Vanities» is Tom Wolfe's satirical novel, published by Vintage in paperback (752 pages, in English).
Sherman McCoy, a Wall Street bond trader and self-proclaimed «Master of the Universe», has it all: an elegant wife, an apartment on Park Avenue, and a Southern mistress. A hit-and-run in the Bronx triggers his downfall: prosecutors, journalists, politicians, and clergy turn against him. A satire on ambition and 1980s New York.
The work was originally published in 1987; this Vintage edition is from 2010. It received the Ambassador Book Award in 1988.
For reading groups and for those who enjoy social satire and American classics.
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.
