The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel

Tom Wolfe

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Feb 21, 2002 - Fiction - 704 pages

Vintage Tom Wolfe, 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)

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Review: The Bonfire of the Vanities

User Review  - Nikolai Kim - Goodreads

I'd like to dismiss Bonfire of the Vanities as no more than entertainment. Certainly, one imagines that the true substance of the story resides in the epilogue, which is all too brief: What was ...

Review: The Bonfire of the Vanities

User Review  - Mikey B. - Goodreads

This novel still reads well and remains topical after more than twenty-five years. Mr. Wolfe handles confrontations with great verve and wit – these are confrontations between very distinct groups of ...

About the author

Tom Wolfe is the author of a dozen books, among them such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. He lives in New York City.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel
• Author: Tom Wolfe
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002
• ISBN: 1429960566, 9781429960564
• Length: 704 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Literary