The feeling is perfectly reproduced in Wolfe's novel. 'The air of New York crackles with an energy that causes the adrenalin to pump. Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians and clergy close in on him, determined to bring him down.Įxuberant, scandalous and exceptionally discerning, The Bonfire of the Vanities was Tom Wolfe's first venture into fiction and cemented his reputation as the foremost chronicler of his age. Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. How was a non-cop able to capture this He captured the nuances of the criminal justice system, and especially.
His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in a hit-and-run accident in the Bronx. I was living this life but Tom Wolfe wrote it. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed Master of the. An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American prose
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