Tom Wolfe: The Bonfire of the Vanities

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Tom Wolfe : The Bonfire of the Vanities

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1987

ISBN 9780374115340

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. CD4 - A first edition (First Printing 1987 stated) hardcover book SIGNED by Tom Wolfe on the front free endpaper in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges and corners, scattered light scratches, wrinkling and rubbing, tanning and light shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, a few light stains on the page edges, previous owner's info stamped on the blank page after the front free endpaper, light discoloration and shelf wear. 9.5"x6.5", 659 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Tom Wolfe (Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr.) was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques. Much of Wolfe's work was satirical and centred on the counterculture of the 1960s and issues related to class, social status, and the lifestyles of the economic and intellectual elites of New York City. Wolfe began his career as a regional newspaper reporter in the 1950s, achieving national prominence in the 1960s following the publication of such best-selling books as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (an account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters) and two collections of articles and essays, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers. In 1979, he published the influential book The Right Stuff about the Mercury Seven astronauts, which was made into a 1983 film of the same name directed by Philip Kaufman. His first novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, published in 1987, was met with critical acclaim and also became a commercial success. Its adaptation as a motion picture of the same name, directed by Brian De Palma, was a critical and commercial failure.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

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