The Bonfire of the Vanities
- ISBN-10
- 0374115346
- ISBN-13
- 9780374115340
- Category
- African Americans
- Pages
- 659
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Authors
- Tom Wolfe, Tom James Wolfe
Description
One of the most celebrated bestsellers of the decade, here is Wolfe's wise and wickedly brilliant novel of lust, greed, Wall Street and the American way of life in the '80s.
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