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Bonfire of the Vanities

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4 out of 5
Based on 61,955 Ratings and 2,854 Reviews

Book Description
After Tom Wolfe defined the '60s in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and the cultural U-turn at the turn of the '80s in The Right Stuff, nobody thought he could ever top himself again. In 1987, when The Bonfire of the Vanities arrived, the literati called Wolfe an "aging enfant terrible."

He wasn't aging; he was growing up. Bonfire's pyrot... More
Book Information
PublisherVintage, Random House
BindingPaperback (85 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages752
ISBN-100099541270
ISBN-13978-0099541271
Publication Date01/01/2010
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About Tom Wolfe (Author) : Tom Wolfe is a published author of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Tom Wolfe include The Right Stuff, A Man in Full, Ponche de Acido Lisergico.
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