Tom Wolfe: The Bonfire of the Vanities, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Bonfire of the Vanities
- Publisher:
- St. Martins Press, 02/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781250352651
- Item number:
- 11834180
- Volume:
- 722 Pages
- Weight:
- 454 g
- Format:
- 210 x 137 mm
- Thickness:
- 25 mm
- Release date:
- 4.2.2025
- Series:
- Picador
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Other releases of The Bonfire of the Vanities |
Price |
|---|---|
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, B-format paperback, Englisch | EUR 13.16* |
Blurb
Reissued for today's reader with a cover by the renowned artist Seymour Chwast and an introduction by the critically acclaimed author Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The Bonfire of the Vanities is vintage Tom Wolfe at his best.
"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 The Bonfire of the Vanities , Tom Wolfe's panoramic novel of the go-go New York City of the 1980s, has lost none of its furious luster. Its portrait of power (those who have it and those who want it) and the book's dissection of racial tensions simmering below the city's gleaming veneer have only grown more pointed with time. Wolfe is unblinking, lavish, gleeful, and damning in this larger-than-life vision of the '80s, reinforcing his reputation as an unmatched chronicler of the twisted, contradictory, and glamorous abodes of power
and wealth.
Biography
Tom Wolfe (eigentlich: Thomas Kennerly Wolfe) wurde am 2. März 1931 in Richmond, Virginia, geboren. Nach der Promotion an der Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, arbeitete er als Reporter bei der "Washington Post" und zog 1962 nach New York, wo er zum Starreporter der "New York Herold Tribune" aufstieg. Nach zwei Reportageromanen ("The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test", 1968, deutsch: "Unter Strom"; "The Right Stuff", 1979, deutsch: "Die Helden der Nation") veröffentlichte Tom Wolfe 1987 seinen ersten fiktionalen Roman - "Fegefeuer der Eitelkeiten" - und schaffte damit sogleich den internationalen Durchbruch. Tom Wolfe starb im Mai 2018 im Alter von 88 Jahren in New York.
