Bonfire Of The Vanities,the - Vintage Classics Kel Ediciones

Autor: Wolfe, Tom

Editorial: VINTAGE PUBLISHING

Lenguaje: Inglés

ISBN13: 9780099541271

Reseña:  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 Wolfes 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 Wolfes novel... Electric - Sunday Times The quintessential novel of The Eighties - The Guardian