The Bonfire Of The Vanities Av Tom Wolfe

<p><b>An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American prose</b><br><br>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. <br><br>Exuberant, scandalous and exceptionally discerning, <i>The Bonfire of the Vanities </i>was Tom Wolfe's first venture into fiction and cemented his reputation as the foremost chronicler of his age.<br><br><b>‘The air of New York crackles with an energy that causes the </b><b>adrenalin</b><b> to pump… The feeling is perfectly reproduced in Wolfe's novel… Electric’ – <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>‘The quintessential novel of The Eighties’ – <i>The Guardian</i></b></p>