- Published: 1 March 2010
- ISBN: 9780099541271
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 752
- RRP: $26.00
The Bonfire of the Vanities
- Published: 1 March 2010
- ISBN: 9780099541271
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 752
- RRP: $26.00
A noisy satire on Manhattan’s Wall Street cash-bloated plutocracy… Hugely readable.
John Sutherland, The Times
If there is a set-book of the Eighties, it is Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. No other novel has achieved such a precise place in the imagination of the reading classes. 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... 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. 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. It's, well, electric
Sunday Times
It's witty, sprawling and ambitious
Daily Telegraph
Impossible to put down
Wall Street Journal
Delicious fun
New York Times
Moves with a swift comic logic . . . An innovative and imaginative and intricate plot . . .welds Wolfe's descriptions of dinner parties, restaurant games, Wall Street trading, and courthouse chaos into more than a tour de force
Time
Acerbically funny
Christina Koning, The Times
Still very funny and smartly written a good 20 years after it was first published
Colin Waters, Sunday Herald
Dense with research and bulging with bombast. Yet, it has to be admitted, it's also great fun
Hermione Hoby, Observer
I read this novel at the end of the 1980s when greed and excess were rife, and the merger barons were making loads of money. As someone working in the City, I loved how it perfectly captured the voraciously materialistic mood. Wolfe portrays his characters with wit and accuracy.
Madeleine Gore, Easy Living
A page-turner
Daily Express