The Bonfire of the Vanities

The novel that placed Tom Wolfe among the top ranks of great 20th-century novelists and remained on The New York Times bestseller list for over a year, The Bonfire of the Vanities returns to bookstores across the country in a new hardcover edition. In the book, Wolfe exposes the consequences of a young Black man being hit by a car on the life of Sherman McCoy, a Wall Street yuppie who accidentally enters the Bronx and, fearing a robbery after his car tire goes flat, hits one of the youths and flees. A synthesis of an era, The Bonfire of the Vanities chronicles the collapse of a Wall Street investor, and scrutinizes a world where fortunes are made and lost in the blink of an eye. The book is the first of a series of seven Wolfe titles to return to shelves in Brazil.