Binding: Paperback
Description: Vintage Tom Wolfe The Bonfire of the Vanities the #1 bestseller that will forever define late - twentieth - century New York style. " 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) Sherman Mc Coy the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel is a young investment banker with a fourteen - room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx prosecutors politicians the press the police the clergy and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him licking their chops and giving us a gargantuan helping of the human comedy of New York in the 1980s a city boiling over with racial and ethnic hostilities and burning with the itch to Grab It Now. Wolfe's novel is a big panoramic story of the metropolis that reinforces the author's reputation as the foremost chronicler of the way we live in America. Adapted to film in 1990 by director Brian De Palma the movie stars Tom Hanks Bruce Willis Melanie Griffith and Morgan Freeman.
Title: The Bonfire Of The Vanities A Novel
Author(s): Wolfe Tom
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9780312427573
Pages: 704 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/4/2008
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction