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Tom Wolfe - The Bonfire of the Vanities
 
   

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Sherman McCoy is an icon for the superficial life of the wealthy in New York City in the 1980s. His world is shaken by a sudden encounter with unexpected fear and danger when he accidently drives his $50,000 Mercedes into the South Bronx. Wolfe's novel touches on every rung of the social and economic ladder of the times, from inner-city communities, to scavenger-like New York reporters, to the daily grind at an Assistant D. A.'s office, to the highest rungs of the Wall Street bond market. First published in 1987, BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES is Tom Wolfe's first novel.
 
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More than a social snapshot of the Regan Era...

Date of Review:  Feb 16, 2005
The Bottom Line: An excellent look into the politics of race, money, and criminal justice. For a first work of fiction, Wolfe hit a home run.
Review: There seems to be a certain amount of controversy surrounding Tom Wolfe. I suppose this is because of his well-publicized spat with aging literary icons like Norman Mailer and John Updike. It also seems to center on the notion that, somehow, what...
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  4.0

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Recommended to buy: Yes

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Rollicking pace, vivid descriptions,...
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Tangled plot, distracting prose quirks,...
 

A Modern Classic

Date of Review:  Apr 28, 2000
Review: I first became interested in this one when it was being excerpted in Rolling Stone prior to its release. What an captivating story! I was immediately spellbound, not just by the action and suspense of the every day variety (a rich married gentleman...
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  5.0

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Recommended to buy: Yes

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excellent style, good characters,...
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heard rumors that the movie sucked but...
 

This Wolfe has bite!

Date of Review:  Aug 5, 2001
The Bottom Line: Wolfe paints a vivid picture of NYC's 1980s financial elite, brought down in a tawdry scandal that illuminates the tabloid mentality and racial power-grabs in the metropolis.
Review: I read Tom Wolfe's caustic masterwork in advance of the movie version - which I still haven't seen, and don't look forward to simply because I can't imagine how even Brian De Palma could digest the original text. It's a sprawling evocation of the...
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Razor-sharp wit, monumental scale,...
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Those whom Wolfe satirizes probably...
 
 
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Authors Tom Wolfe
Narrator John MacDonald
Fiction Genre Juvenile Fiction
Fiction Subgenre Unknown

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  Washington Post Book World: "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."

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  Format: Audio - Audio Cassette
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc (August 01, 1997)
Measurements: 10"(h) x 7.25"(w) x 2.25"(d), 1.4 lbs.
ISBN: 9780786102037
 
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