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The Bonfire of the Vanities (Paperback)
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The Bonfire of the Vanities (Paperback)

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Paperback 752 Pages
Published: 07/01/2010

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Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in a hit-and-run accident in the Bronx. Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians and clergy close in on him, determined to bring him down. The Bonfire of the Vanities is a caustic satire on the money-feverish Eighties. This exuberant novel cemented Wolfe's reputation as the foremost chronicler of his age.

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Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099548799
Number of pages: 752
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 38 mm
Weight: 557 g

Tom Wolfe was one of the few true titans of American writing. As a journalist (as typified in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test) he became the great chronicler of the countercultural revolution; as a novelist, in The Bonfire of the Vanities, he skewered yuppie excess to create perhaps the defining novel of the 80s. The Right Stuff, his pitch-perfect account of the space race, magnificently bridged the gulf between both disciplines

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