by Tom Wolfe · RBA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447300037
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«La hoguera de las vanidades» is the satirical novel by American writer Tom Wolfe, published by RBA in hardcover (698 pages, in Spanish).
Sherman McCoy, successful stockbroker and Wall Street yuppie, sees his life fall apart after a car accident in the Bronx involving a young African-American woman. The novel portrays with mordant satire the ambition, racism, corruption and class struggle in New York in the 1980s.
1992 edition from the Narrativa Actual collection (no. 4), with translation by Enrique Murillo. The original work was published in 1987.
Recommended for readers of social satire and urban narrative, and for those who want to discover the work that inspired the movie by Brian De Palma (1991).
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.
