by Tom Wolfe · Pan Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330305730
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«The Bonfire of the Vanities» is Tom Wolfe's satirical novel, published by Pan Books Ltd in paperback (752 pages, in English).
After a nighttime accident in the Bronx with his lover, bond trader Sherman McCoy becomes the center of a scandal that exposes racial tensions, economic power, and the role of the press in 1980s New York.
The work was originally published in 1987; this edition dates from 1999 and belongs to the Picador Books collection.
Recommended for readers of social satire and urban fiction, with an interest in the portrayal of power, the press, and American inequalities.
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.
