by Tom Wolfe · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433931436
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«La hoguera de las vanidades» is Tom Wolfe's satirical novel, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardcover (636 pages, in Spanish).
The story follows Sherman McCoy, a Wall Street broker whose life falls apart after getting lost with his mistress in the Bronx and being involved in an accident. Through that ordeal, Wolfe portrays 1980s New York high society: finance, the press, the courts, the police, and the slums, in a scathing critique of ambition and inequality.
The work belongs to the Panorama de narrativas collection, where it is number 143. The original English edition, «The Bonfire of the Vanities», was published in 1987.
Recommended for readers of contemporary fiction and social satire, particularly those interested in 1980s New York and the figure of the yuppie.
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.
