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Bonfire of the vanities novel6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wolfe's novel is a big, panoramic story of the metropolis that reinforces the author's reputation as the foremost chronicler of the way we live in America.Īdapted to film in 1990 by director Brian De Palma, the movie stars Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Morgan Freeman. Not because it is a superb portrayal of the New York of the 1990s. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him, licking their chops and giving us a gargantuan helping of the human comedy, of New York in the 1980s, a city boiling over with racial and ethnic hostilities and burning with the itch to Grab It Now. The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002, 704 pages ISBN 1429960566, 9781429960564 topics: fiction usa This is definitely towards the top of my all-time fiction list. Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. Brilliant high comedy.” (The New Republic) "No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton" ( The National Review) THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES by Tom Wolfe RELEASE DATE: Nov. ![]() Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style. ![]()
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