The Bonfire of the Vanities: A NovelVintage 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) “A page-turner . . . Brilliant high comedy.” (The New Republic) |
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User Review - Eyejaybee - LibraryThingI first read this novel just weeks after its initial publication in 1988 and thought it was spellbinding then. Twenty-eight years on it has lost none of its power to enthral. Like Thackeray's "Vanity ... Read full review
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User Review - dbsovereign - LibraryThingA thrilling ride into the underworlds of New York City. Wolfe loves to chronicle the twists of Fate that can turn a winner into a loser, and make us laugh along the way down the spiralling vortex of doom. Read full review

