by Tom Wolfe · Columna CAT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483000762
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«La Foguera de les Vanitats» is the contemporary fiction novel by Tom Wolfe, published by Columna CAT in paperback (664 pages, in Catalan).
Set in 1980s New York, the novel follows a Wall Street yuppie whose life falls apart when he becomes involved in a case that attracts the attention of the press and the justice system. With a journalistic, agile and incisive style, it unflinchingly exposes the ambition, hypocrisy and contradictions of contemporary urban life.
The book was published on April 1, 1996 in the Clàssica collection (no. 159) by Columna CAT.
For the general public, especially readers interested in social satire and urban stories.
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.
