The Bonfire of the Vanities
Author: Tom Wolfe
The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City, and centers on three main …….Read More
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I am Charlotte Simmons
Tom Wolfe, the master social novelist of our time, the spot-on chronicler of all things contemporary and cultural, presents a sensational new novel about life, love, and learning--or the lack… Continue Reading Posted in: Bildungsromans, Contemporary American Fiction, Fiction, Literary Satire Fiction, Social Classes
Paris Trout
In this novel of social drama, a casual murder in the small Georgia town of Cotton Point just after World War II and the resulting court case cleave open the… Continue Reading Posted in: American Literature, American Writers, Fiction In English, Murderers
A Man in Full
Atlanta conglomerate king, Charles Croker, has expansionist ambitions and an outsize ego. He also has a young and demanding second wife and a half-empty office tower running up debts. When… Continue Reading Posted in: African American Literary Fiction, Fiction, Legal Thrillers, Politics, Practical, Social Life And Customs
Bright Lights, Big City
With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Literature & Fiction, English Fiction, United States
The Right Stuff
A wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of America's manned space program, from the author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test‘What is it’ asks Tom Wolfe, ‘that makes a man willing… Continue Reading Posted in: Astronauts, Biography, Space Flights
The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life
___________________'A marvellous, life-affirming book' Mark McCormack'Golf and mysticism...a dazzler and a thought-provoker' Los Angeles Times'Good stuff...a philosophical fantasy imagined on a golf course, heavy with fog, storm, fireworks and the… Continue Reading Posted in: African Americans, Caddies, Golf Stories
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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… Continue Reading Posted in: Hippie Communities, Tom, United States Social Life And Customs, Wolfe
The Collector
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda. When he wins the pools he buys a remote… Continue Reading Posted in: Horror Fiction Classics, Horror Suspense, Mystery And Detective Fiction Great Britain, Psychological Fiction, Women Art Students
South
This is the epic first hand account of the Endurance expedition. As the first world war broke out in Europe, Shackleton's expedition to the South Pole became trapped by ice.… Continue Reading Posted in: Biography, Diaries, Discoveries In Geography, Science Fiction & Fantasy
The Lottery Rose
The Newbery Award winning author of Across Five Aprils and Up a Road Slowly presents the story of a young boy from a troubled family who learns what it means… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult
The Hotel New Hampshire
"The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in… Continue Reading Posted in: Domestic Fiction, Fiction In English American Writers 1945 Texts, Hotels
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