The Bonfire of the Vanities
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Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style.
"No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton" (The National Review)
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 03/04/2008
Pages: 704
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 8.26h x 6.08w x 1.21d
ISBN: 9780312427573
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/01/2008 pg. 118
Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 102
Entertainment Weekly 10/25/2013 pg. 103
About the Author
Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of contemporary classics like 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. He lived in New York City.