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The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
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Picador, 1990, Medium-format Paperback – Fiction – 730 pp.
The Bonfire of the Vanities is a masterpiece, a riotous, exuberant and passionate epic that captures the greed and corruption of eighties New York and examines it under the microscope of Wolfe’s famed satirical wit.
Sherman McCoy, Wall Street wunderkind, seems to have it all; a salary like a telephone number, a home on Park Avenue, a beautiful wife and child, a mistress, a Mercedes. He is a Master of the Universel But then he gets lost one dark night in the Bronx, and his mercedes hits something. That something turns out to be Henry Lamb, a young black man who is now in a coma; for Sherman meanwhile, everything is about to unravel so fast he will hardly have time to change his thousand dollar suit …
Sprawling and ambitious — Daily Telegraph.
If there is a set-book of the Eighties, it is Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities. No other novel has achieved such a precise place in the imagination of the reading classes. With his first attempt at fiction Wolfe has become the ‘Dickens or Balzac of his age’; the dandy journalist has become the towering genius The Times Wolfe’s modern morality tale displays the sardonic humour and sharp appreciation of the grotesque familiar to admirers of his non fiction… Savagely funny and compelling — Guardian.
The air of New York crackles with an energy that causes the adrenalin to pump, until one has the illusion that this is where the whole of life is taking place. The feeling is perfectly reproduced in Wolfe’s novel, which opens such cans of worms as racial hostility, dress codes, political labelling and the cynical opportunism that governs every action. It’s, well, electric — Sunday Times.
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