The Bonfire of the Vanities

ISBN-13: 9780099541271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 752 str.

Tom Wolfe

Opis

Sherman McCoy finds himself involved in a freak accident involving two black muggers, his Mercedes and his mistress. As a result McCoy learns that prosecutors, politicians and press are lining up to devour him with shameless self-serving relish.

Recenzje

A noisy satire on Manhattan's Wall Street cash-bloated plutocracy... Hugely readable. John Sutherland The Times

O autorze

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.