![]() The feeling is perfectly reproduced in Wolfe's novel, which opens such cans of worms as racial hostility, dress codes, political labelling and the cynical opportunism that governs every action. Savagely funny and compelling" Guardian "The air of New York crackles with an energy that causes the adrenalin to pump, until one has the illusion that this is where the whole of life is taking place. With his first attempt at fiction Wolfe has become the 'Dickens or Balzac of his age' the dandy journalist has become the towering genius" The Times "Wolfe's modern morality tale displays the sardonic humour and sharp appreciation of the grotesque familiar to admirers of his non fiction. No other novel has achieved such a precise place in the imagination of the reading classes. The Bonfire of the Vanities, as written by Wolfe, was a kaleidoscopic account of greed and cynicism in the Me Decade, filled with characters who were easy to hate and hard to look away. ![]() "If there is a set-book of the Eighties, it is Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. ![]()
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