The Bonfire of the Vanities Chapter One.
WOLFE, Tom.
The Bonfire of the Vanities Chapter One.
"The Master of the Universe was cheap, and he was rotten, and he was a liar:" First Edition of The Bonfire of the Vanities Chapter One; Signed by Tom Wolfe
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1987.
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First edition of this sample chapter from the author’s first novel, an advance uncorrected excerpt released before the finished hardcover book with sections only previously appearing in Rolling Stone magazine. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Uncommon.
The Bonfire of the Vanities is a novel, but it is based on the same sort of detailed on-scene reporting as Wolfe's great nonfiction bestsellers, The Right Stuff, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. And it is every bit as eye-opening in its achievements. It is a big, panoramic story of the metropolis-the kind of fiction strangely absent from our literature in the second half of this century-that reinforces Tom Wolfe's reputation as the foremost chronicler of the way we live in America. "A big, bitter, funny, craftily plotted book that grabs you by the lapels and won't let go" (The New York Times Book Review).
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