The Bonfire of the Vanities
A Novel
Tom Wolfe
Picador
National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee, National Books Critics Circle Awards - Nominee, National Book Critics Circle Awards - Nominee
Prologue: Mutt on Fire
"And then say what? say, 'forget you're hungry, forget you got shot inna
back by some racist cop-Chuck was here? Chuck come up to
Harlem-'"
"No, I'll tell you what-"
"'Chuck come up to Harlem and-'"
''I'll...
Praise for The Bonfire of the Vanities
“A big, bitter, funny, craftily plotted book that grabs you by the lapels and won't let you go.” —The New York Times Book Review
“The Bonfire of the Vanities chronicles the collapse of a Wall Street bond trader, and examines a world in which fortunes are made and lost at the blink of a computer screen. . . . Wolfe's subject couldn't be more topical: New Yorkers' relentless pursuit and flaunting of wealth, and the fury it evokes in the have-nots.” —USA Today
“A superb human comedy and the first novel ever to get contemporary New York, in all its arrogance and shame and heterogeneity and insularity, exactly right.” —The Washington Post Book World
“A page-turner . . . Brilliant high comedy.” —The New Republic
“More than a tour de force.” —Time
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