The Bonfire of the Vanities

Thirty-eight-year-old Sherman McCoy, who lives on Park Avenue, has a wife and a high-maintenance mistress, and is a successful Wall Street bond trader, faces notoriety and the criminal justice system when he is arrested for hit-and-run driving in the South Bronx.

New York Times Book Review

A big, bitter, funny, craftily plotted book that grabs you by the lapels and won’t let go.

Tom Wolfe's high-wire act of language has provided a sort of cultural funhouse mirror ever since he started publishing in the mid-1960s, first as a journalist and later as the acclaimed author of novels The Bonfire of the Vanities and A Man in Full. Wolfe occasionally raises hackles, and he always provokes a response.