

Yet it is also about the downfall of a wasp, master of the universe – a Wall Street broker. The story is about New York City’s raging social and racial contrasts in the eighties of the past century a hit and run accident of an honour student in the South Bronx sparks a chain of events that will hold the reader’s attention from the first to the last page of this novel.

The Bonfire of the Vanities (1) is a 1987 novel written by Tom Wolfe.
