A noisy satire on Manhattan's Wall Street cash-bloated plutocracy... Hugely readable.
John Sutherland
The Times
If there is a set-book of the Eighties, it is Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. No other novel has achieved such a precise place in the imagination of the reading classes. With his first attempt at fiction Wolfe has ... Read morebecome the 'Dickens or Balzac of his age'; the dandy journalist has become the towering genius
The Times
Wolfe's modern morality tale displays the sardonic humour and sharp appreciation of the grotesque familiar to admirers of his non fiction... Savagely funny and compelling
Guardian
The air of New York crackles with an energy that causes the adrenalin to pump, until one has the illusion that this is where the whole of life is taking place. The feeling is perfectly reproduced in Wolfe's novel, which opens such cans of worms as racial hostility, dress codes, political labelling and the cynical opportunism that governs every action. It's, well, electric
Sunday Times
It's witty, sprawling and ambitious
Daily Telegraph
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