by Tom Wolfe · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330306607
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«The Bonfire of the Vanities» is Tom Wolfe's satirical novel, published by Picador in paperback (726 pages, in English).
Sherman McCoy, a successful Wall Street stockbroker, sees his life collapse after a car accident in the Bronx. The hit-and-run of a young Black man unleashes a spiral involving prosecutors, politicians and the press, exposing racial tensions and corruption in 1980s New York.
Tom Wolfe's first novel, winner of the Ambassador Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
A common book club read and a reference for those interested in social satire and contemporary American fiction.
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.
