the bonfire of the vanities
La calma desaparece de la vida de un gángster de Wall Street, cuando un reportero lo acusa de haber arrollado a alguien.
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 TimesThe quintessential novel of The Eighties The Guardian
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. «The Bonfire of the Vanities» is a caustic satire on the money-feverish Eighties. This exuberant novel cemented Wolfe’s reputation as the foremost chronicler of his age.
- Ancho: 12.9 cm
- Alto: 19.8 cm
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 26/04/2010
- Año de edición: 2010
- ISBN: 9780099541271
- Encuadernación: Tapa blanda bolsillo
- Idioma: INGLÉS
- Editorial: ARROW
- Nº de páginas: 752
Este libro ha sido escrito y pretenece a Tom Wolfe
