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Bonfire of the Vanities

By Tom Wolfe
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Reissued for today's reader with a cover by the renowned artist Seymour Chwast and an introduction by the critically acclaimed author Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The Bonfire of the Vanities is vintage Tom Wolfe at his best. "No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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"Tom Wolfe's panoramic novel of the go-go New York City of the 1980s, discussing power and the racial and ethnic tensions simmering below the city's gleaming veneer"--

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Reissued for today's reader with a cover by the renowned artist Seymour Chwast and an introduction by the critically acclaimed author Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The Bonfire of the Vanities is vintage Tom Wolfe at his best.

"No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton." — The National Review

"A page-turner . . . Brilliant high comedy." — The New Republic

The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe's panoramic novel of the go-go New York City of the 1980s, has lost none of its furious lustre. Its portrait of power (those who have it and those who want it) and the book's dissection of racial tensions simmering below the city's gleaming veneer have only grown more pointed with time. Wolfe is unblinking, lavish, gleeful, and damning in this larger-than-life vision of the '80s, reinforcing his reputation as an unmatched chronicler of the twisted, contradictory, and glamorous abodes of power and wealth.

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ISBN: 9781250352651

Publisher: St Martin's Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 February 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: St Martin's Press

Audience: General / adult

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Pages: 720

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About the Author

Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of more than a dozen books, including such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. He is credited with coining the term "the Me Decade." Among his many honors, he was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Prize, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lived in New York City.

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