by Tom Wolfe · tapa dura · ISBN 9788473069786
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«La Foguera de les Vanitats» is Tom Wolfe's satirical novel, published by Portic in hardcover (664 pages, in Catalan).
Set in 1980s New York, it follows Sherman McCoy, an ambitious Manhattan stockbroker. After a chance accident in the Bronx, his privileged life unravels as the press, the justice system, and politics turn him into the center of a scandal. The novel portrays the greed, racism, and social tensions of the city.
Work originally published in 1987 under the title The Bonfire of the Vanities; this Catalan edition by Portic is from 1993.
For readers of contemporary fiction and social satire, with an interest in 1980s New York.
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.
