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The Bonfire of the Vanities Paperback – March 4, 2008
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Print length704 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherPicador
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Publication dateMarch 4, 2008
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Dimensions5.51 x 1.24 x 8.2 inches
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ISBN-100312427573
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ISBN-13978-0312427573
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“A big, bitter, funny, craftily plotted book that grabs you by the lapels and won't let you go.” ―The New York Times Book Review
“The Bonfire of the Vanities chronicles the collapse of a Wall Street bond trader, and examines a world in which fortunes are made and lost at the blink of a computer screen. . . . Wolfe's subject couldn't be more topical: New Yorkers' relentless pursuit and flaunting of wealth, and the fury it evokes in the have-nots.” ―USA Today
“A superb human comedy and the first novel ever to get contemporary New York, in all its arrogance and shame and heterogeneity and insularity, exactly right.” ―The Washington Post Book World
“A page-turner . . . Brilliant high comedy.” ―The New Republic
“More than a tour de force.” ―Time
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Suddenly, one wrong turn makes it all go wrong, and Sherman spirals downward in a sudden fall from grace that sucks him into the ravenous heart of a New York City gone mad during the go-go, racially turbulent, socially hilarious 1980s.
About the Author
Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. As a reporter, he wrote articles for The Washington Post, the New York Herald Tribune, Esquire, and New York magazine, and is credited with coining the term, “The Me Decade.”
Among his many honors, Tom was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.A. at Washington and Lee University, graduating cum laude, and a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale. He lived in New York City.
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Product details
- Publisher : Picador; First edition (March 4, 2008)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 704 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0312427573
- ISBN-13 : 978-0312427573
- Item Weight : 1.21 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.51 x 1.24 x 8.2 inches
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Best Sellers Rank:
#20,854 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #90 in Lawyers & Criminals Humor
- #266 in Fiction Satire
- #483 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction
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What struck me (in the summer of 2020) is how relevant it all feels today, from the crude exploitation of 'the mob' to the tiering of the US justice system in which your income can profoundly influence your fate.
A few of the reviews below have criticised the book for verbosity and unnecessary detail, which surprised me, in an era in which authors routinely take 500 pages to express an emotional landscape Graham Greene could have painted in a third of that. I don't think it's a fair criticism either. The novel is pacy and the scene-setting is there to contextualise the 'vanities' of the title.
I’ve never been so baffled/bored/mystified by a book....... I hate to give up and battled on for 27%, but then conceded that as I would never get my time back battling on with it I gave up.
I really tried but in parts it was almost like it was written in code or an alien language.....or maybe it’s just ‘I didn’t get it’ .
I really wanted to read about 1980’s New York but just could not engage with any of the characters at all and found it far too ‘wordy’ and descriptive about things I just did not understand.
Anyway, on to my next book :-D
Gripped by Wolfe's ability to show the story through dialogue and action. I did not want this book to end.
Struck how women are never portrayed sympathetically, no women's characters are developed. That said the male characters are not sympathetically portrayed. All their faults and foibles are on show, their vanities. Love it!
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