Tom Wolfe

Estamos en los años sesenta y Ken Kesey, el autor de "Alguien voló sobre el nido del cuco", ha reunido a su alrededor a los «bromistas», una desmadrada corte de jóvenes radicales embarcados en novísi

Charlie Croker es dueño de un negocio inmobiliario, ha cumplido los sesenta y tiene una segunda esposa de sólo veintiocho años. Pero la vida de este triunfador se empieza a resquebrajar cuando descubre que no puede devolver el cuantioso credito que pidio al banco para expandir su imperio de ladrillo. Croker inicia un descenso a los infiernos en el que se cruzara con un joven idealista que soporta con estoicismo los embates de la vida y un abogado negro que ha ascendido socialmente. Tom Wolfe escruta en esta novela las grietas de una de las grandes urbes del Sur: Atlanta. Y lo que emerge es un aquelarre de conflictos raciales, corrupcion de los poderes politico y eco- nomico, ostentacion y sexo...

Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in a hit-and-run accident in the Bronx. Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians and clergy close in on him, determined to bring him down. "The Bonfire of the Vanities" is a caustic satire on the money-feverish Eighties. This exuberant novel cemented Wolfe's reputation as the foremost chronicler of his age.

À Fort Bragg, en Caroline du Nord, grande base d''entraînement militaire, un jeune soldat homosexuel a été battu à mort dans les toilettes d''un bar topless et les trois rangers coupables de l''agres

Lorsque Charlotte, sage et prude jeune fille d''origine modeste, débarque de sa Caroline du Nord à Dupont University, l''Olympe de la connaissance, qui abrite la crème de la jeunesse américaine, elle

Tom Wolfes modern American satire tells the story of Sherman McCoy, a Wall Street Master of the Universe who has it all a Park Avenue apartment, a job that brings wealth, power and prestige, a beautiful wife, an even more beautiful mistress. Suddenly, one wrong turn makes it all go wrong, and Sherman spirals downward in a sudden fall from grace that sucks him into the ravenous heart of a New York City gone mad during the go-go, racially turbulent, socially hilarious 1980s.

'I looked around and people's faces were distorted...lights were flashing everywhere...the screen at the end of the room had three or four different films on it at once, and the strobe light was flashing faster than it had been...the band was playing but I couldn't hear the music...people were dancing...someone came up to me and I shut my eyes and with a machine he projected images on the back of my eye-lids...I sought out a person I trusted and he laughed and told me that the Kool-Aid had been spiked and that I was beginning my first LSD experience...'