by Tom Wolfe · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330296335
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«The Bonfire of the Vanities» is Tom Wolfe's satirical novel, published by Picador in paperback (752 pages, in English).
In 1980s New York, Wall Street broker Sherman McCoy and his mistress have an accident in the Bronx; a young Black man ends up in a coma and McCoy's life falls apart. Wolfe interweaves a sensationalist journalist, an assistant district attorney, and a religious leader to satirize the city's racial, class, and political tensions.
The cover of this Picador edition indicates that the novel was adapted into a movie by Warner Bros.
Recommended for readers of contemporary fiction interested in a satirical portrait of 1980s New York and its power dynamics.
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.
