Name: The Bonfire of the Vanities
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Author: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
ISBN: 9781250352651

Type

Physical Book

Author

Tom Wolfe

Introduction by

Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Publisher

Picador

Language

English

Pages

704

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.0 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781250352651

Synopsis "The Bonfire of the Vanities"

Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style. "No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton" (The National Review) "A page-turner . . . Brilliant high comedy." (The New Republic) Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him, licking their chops and giving us a gargantuan helping of the human comedy, of New York in the 1980s, a city boiling over with racial and ethnic hostilities and burning with the itch to Grab It Now. Wolfe's novel is a big, panoramic story of the metropolis that reinforces the author's reputation as the foremost chronicler of the way we live in America. Adapted to film in 1990 by director Brian De Palma, the movie stars Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Morgan Freeman.

Taffy Brodesser-Akner

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American journalist and author, Taffy Brodesser-Akner was born on October 26, 1975 in New York, growing up in an Orthodox Jewish family. She studied at New York University and married Claude Brodesser, from whom she took her last name.

Brodesser-Akner has worked as a freelance journalist for outlets like GQ, ESPN The Magazine, and Texas Monthly and is a writer at The New York Times. Her articles on celebrities have earned her awards such as the New York Press Club Award and the Mirror Award.

In 2019, she published her first book, Fleishman Is In Trouble, which was released in Spanish under the title Fleishman está en apuros. With it, she was nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020.

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