Playing in a semi-professional league for one year, the twenty-year-old Virginian nourished dreams of earning his living as an athlete. Instead of further pursuing his studies or applying as a journalist, he decided to pursue a professional career in baseball. Born on Main Richmond, Virginia, the son of an agronomy professor and a landscape designer discovered his enthusiasm for fiction and journalism even before high school and majored in English at Washington and Lee in 1951. Since the beginning of his success as a creative force within the New Journalism movement in the late 1960s, Tom Wolfe has established himself as a major figure of American Letters.
“I’m not talking about zeitgeist now, or spiritual matters or other things people tend to talk about when they are talking about literary matters To me, it was always the technique that was important.” 1 Stylistic Analysis of Selected ChaptersĤ.4. Wolfe’s Call for Realism in Novel WritingĤ. Development of the Colloquial in American Fiction up to WolfeĢ. Tom Wolfe’s TheBonfire of the Vanities as a Stylistic Triumphġ. Wolfe's novel is a big, panoramic story of the metropolis that reinforces the author's reputation as the foremost chronicler of the way we live in America.Īdapted to film in 1990 by director Brian De Palma, the movie stars Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Morgan Freeman.II. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him, licking their chops and giving us a gargantuan helping of the human comedy, of New York in the 1980s, a city boiling over with racial and ethnic hostilities and burning with the itch to Grab It Now. Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan.
Brilliant high comedy." (The New Republic) "No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton" ( The National Review) Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style.
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