The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel

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

I 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 - LibraryThing

A 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

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About the author (2002)

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.

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