The Bonfire of the Vanities (Audiobook)

from alexrichman

A wonderful door-stop of a novel whose pages simply fly by. The story of a rich couple's hit-and-run in a bad neighbourhood could be ripped from the headlines but the cast are gorgeously caricatured, from the permanently hungover journalist to the ruthless reverend.

from maryreinert

Didn't read this in the 1980's when it came out, but it could have been written today as well. Such an expose on wealth, privilege, poverty, police, racism, class and legal entanglement. Sherman McCoy lives on Park Avenue, is a Wall Street hero, a wife and lovely child; however, he is also having...

from Eyejaybee

I first read this novel just weeks after its initial publication in 1988 and thought it was spellbinging then, and twenty-four years on it has lost none of its power to enthrall. Like Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" this is quite definitely a novel without a hero, though there are several victims. The ...

from Eyejaybee

I first read this novel just weeks after its initial publication in 1988 and thought it was spellbinding then. Thirty years later I think it has lost none of its power to enthral. In a lengthy introduction to this recent edition, Tom Wolfe cites William Thackeray's Vanity Fair as one of his inspi...

from strandbooks

I'm surprised to read the other reviews about how this book is stuck in the 80s when it was written. Substitute the dark rosewood, green marble floors and shiny brass with travertine tile, granite countertops and silver in the McCoy apartment, and keep the entire plot and characters (without the ...