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The Bonfire of the Vanities

Tom Wolfe

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Title	:	The Bonfire of the Vanities
Author	:	Tom Wolfe
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 690 pages
Published	:	October 30th 2001 by Dial Press Trade Paperback (first published November 1st 1987)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Novels. Literature. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. New York

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Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him, licking their chops and giving us a gargantuan helping of the human comedy of New York in the last years of the twentieth century, a city boiling over with racial and ethnic hostilities and burning with the itch to Grab It Now. Wolfe's gallery ranges from Wall Street, where people in their thirties feel like small-fry if they're not yet making a million per, to the real streets, where the aim is lower but the itch is just as virulent.

We see this feverish landscape through the eyes of McCoy's wife and his mistress; the young prosecutor for whom the McCoy case would be the answer to a prayer; the ne'er-do-well British journalist who needs such a case to save his career in America; the street-wise Irish lawyer who becomes McCoy's only ally; and Reverend Bacon of Harlem, a master manipulator of public opinion. Above all, we see what happens when the criminal justice system-gorged with "the chow," as the Bronx prosecutor calls the borough's usual black and Latin felons-considers the prospect of being banded a prime cut like Sherman McCoy of Park Avenue.

The Bonfire of the Vanities is a novel, but it is based on the same sort of detailed on-scene reporting as Wolfe's great nonfiction bestsellers, The Right Stuff, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. And it is every bit as eye-opening in its achievements. It is a big, panoramic story of the metropolis-the kind of fiction strangely absent from our literature in the second half of this century-that reinforces Tom Wolfe's reputation as the foremost chronicler of the way we live in America.

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Original Title:	The Bonfire of the Vanities
ISBN:	0553381342 (ISBN13: 9780553381344)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Sherman McCoy, Peter Fallow, Jimmy Caughey, Huck Thigg, Alex Britt-Withers, Asher Herzfeld, Gil Archer, Baron Hochswald, Linwood Talley, Brian Highridge, Nick Stopping, Mike Bellavita, Lewis Sanderson, Ferdinand Arguello, Warren Bottomley, Bernard Levy, Annie Lamb, Greg Rosenwald, Guliaggi, Red Pitt, Gloria Dawson, Eugene Lopwitz, Caroline Heftshank, John Campbell McCoy, St. John Thomas, Kate di Ducci, Miss Lyons, Arthur Ruskin, Irv Stone
Setting:	New York City, New York(United States) New York State(United States)
Literary Awards:	Ambassador Book Award for Fiction (1988), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1987)

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This book is a whole other beast. Throughout Wolfe uses phonetics to great effect in casting his characters in all their brutal-and-suave-tongued rage. The Haves rave against the Have-nots; the Have-nots rage against the rich. And in the end, every single character, the Haves and Have-nots alike, is no better than the other. The only way you win is to embrace your animal nature, the nature to survive at all costs. I found the character of Peter Fallow dull throughout most of the novel, but as

What an amazing book. Wolfe not only tells a great story but is a master of the English language and his prose is rich with multi-layered metaphors, symbolism, allusions, and I was fascinated by the various references to Edgar Allan Poe. I was sorry to finish it. I must now watch the movie again if nothing else to highlight how pale a medium is film when compared to literature.A modern classic.

A hilarious and damning indictment of Wall Street, the media, the criminal justice system, and, well, America. Every element of Tom Wolfes novel is virtually flawless--an engrossing plot, memorable scenes, a conversational style of writing replete with sardonic wit, themes both overt and subtle... and the characters, ah, the characters.Wolfes talent lies, I think, in his ability to paint such tragic, deeply flawed characters in a comical yet sympathetic light. The characters are written so

R.I.P., Tom Wolfe (March 2, 1930 May 14, 2018)Seer of Hippy Culture then the Insatiable '80s U.S.A./N.Y.C.,Satirist of Avarice and the Cognoscenti Soi-disant, andChronicler of America's Race to Space on the Heels of Its Jet Pilot CowboyQuest for Record Supersonic Speeds "Bullshit reigns." The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom WolfeA brilliant, shrewdly constructed satire of the 1980s in America, and particularly in New York City. The Bonfire of the Vanities is big, biting and humorous. Wolfe belted

This book was good but, as are all Tom Wolfe books, it was long winded and there were too many pages and it could have been cut down drastically. And even though it was too long, the ending seemed as though all those pages don't even tell the whole story.

This book was a refreshing change from the introspective, thoughtful books I'd been reading. It had been a while since a book had me glued to the bed all day, lying on my right side or lying on my left side, with the A/C turned on or with the A/C turned off, wearing my shirt or not wearing my shirt, with the book in hand or without the book in hand, marveling at a particular turn of phrase or dreaming about juicy jugs and loamy loins (a Wolfism). This lengthy novel at 700 pages was a page turner

Bonfire of the Vanities is not so much one massive pyre but several large and closely situated camp-fire like conflagrations. Conflagration 1: Master of the Universe, bond baron and archetypal WASP Sherman McCoy, has reached the top of his particular tree and is enjoying the view from on high while ensuring that his chin is always seen at the right angle. It is nice being at the top of things because well, lets face it, no one wants to be at the bottom. The problem with being at the top of the