Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux New York

Edition:First Edition

Year: 1987

Description: F, 623 pp.; Book Club Edition First Edition 1987; owner name and date on front pasted endpaper; The Bonfire of the Vanities is a satirical novel about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed during the 1980's. It is often referred to as the quinessential novel of the Reagan eighties. Made into a Hollywood movie (1990) directed by Brian De Palma starring Tom Hanks as Wall St. executive Sherman McCoy, his greedy girlfriend Maria Ruskin played by Melanie Griffith, and alcoholic tabloid reporter Peter Fallow played by Bruce Willis.; NF dj; Tom Wolfe b.1930 - d. 2018

Author: Tom Wolfe