Bonfire of the Vanities - Brossura

Wolfe, Tom

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0553275976 ISBN 13: 9780553275971

Casa editrice: Bantam Books, 1988

Riassunto

Tom Wolfe’s modern American satire tells the story of Sherman McCoy, a Wall Street “Master of the Universe” who has it all — a Park Avenue apartment, a job that brings wealth, power and prestige, a beautiful wife, an even more beautiful mistress.

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.
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Recensione:

"A big, bitter, funny, craftily plotted book that grabs you by the lapels and won't let go."
--The New York Times Book Review

"It's the human comedy, on a skyscraper scale and at a taxi-meter pace . . . . "
--Newsweek

"Bonfire moves with a swift comic logic . . . . An innovative and imaginative and intricate plot . . . welds Wolfe's descriptions of dinner parties, restaurant games, Wall Street trading and courthouse chaos into more than a tour de force."
--Time

"Impossible to put down . . ."
--The Wall Street Journal

"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."
--Washington Post Book World.

"Brilliant--Bonfire illumines the modern madness that [was] New York in the 1980s with the intense precision of a laser beam."
--People

"One of the most impressive novels of the decade."
--Library Journal

"Delicious fun."
--The New York Times

L'autore:

Tom Wolfe is the author of a dozen books, among them such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and The Bonfire of the Vanities. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.A. at Washington and Lee University and a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale. He lives in New York City.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bantam Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0553275976
• ISBN 13: 9780553275971
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 704