Wolfe, Tom  (, 1931-) <br/><br/>
The bonfire of the vanities 
/ Tom Wolfe 
 - New York  : Farrar, Straus Giroux  , c1987. 
 - 659 p.  ; 25 cm. 
<br/><br/> Vintage Tom Wolfe, 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 ) Tom Wolfe is the author of a dozen books, among them such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and I Am Charlotte Simmons . He lives in New York City. Tom Wolfe's first novel remains a definitive work of American fiction after more than twenty years in print. It looks at the greed and racism on New York City's underbelly in the 1980s through the eyes of four fictional individuals, composites of characteristics that Wolfe observed in society. The Bonfire of the Vanities represents Wolfe's appreciation for minute and surprising details of American culture. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-374-11534-6 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>City and Town life---United States----Fiction<br/>Traffic accidents----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Legal stories
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC WOL