The Bonfire of the Vanities - Couverture souple

Wolfe, Tom

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099548798 ISBN 13 : 9780099548799

Editeur : Vintage, 2010

Synopsis

An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American prose Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in a hit-and-run accident in the Bronx. Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians and clergy close in on him, determined to bring him down. Exuberant, 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. `The air of New York crackles with an energy that causes the adrenalin to pump… The feeling is perfectly reproduced in Wolfe's novel… Electric’ – Sunday Times `The quintessential novel of The Eighties’ – The Guardian

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, I Am Charlotte Simmons and Back to Blood. He received the National Book Foundation's 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099548798
• ISBN 13: 9780099548799
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 752
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