a 1990 American satirical black comedy film directed and produced by Brian De Palma and starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall and Morgan Freeman

The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1990 American satirical black comedy film directed and produced by Brian De Palma and starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall and Morgan Freeman.

a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe

The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe.

a satirical novel by Tom henrydreher.com story

The Bonfire of the Vanities is a satirical novel by Tom henrydreher.com story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in s New York City and centers on three main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish assistant district attorney Larry Kramer, and British expatriate journalist Peter Fallow.

a satirical novel that takes on racism, class inequality, politics, and greed in New York of the 1980s

The Bonfire Of The Vanities is a satirical novel that takes on racism, class inequality, politics, and greed in New York of the 1980s.

a 1990 American satirical black comedy film directed by Brian De Palma

The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1990 American satirical black comedy film directed by Brian De Palma.

an epic tome chronicling a diverse set of issues in 1980s New York

The Bonfire of the Vanities is an epic tome chronicling a diverse set of issues in 1980s New York.

a novel

The Bonfire of the Vanities is a novel, but a novelis based on the same sort of detailed on-scene reporting as Wolfe's great nonfiction bestsellers, The Right Stuff, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

a bittersweet portrayal of the late capitalism that characterised Western society in the 1980s and is based on Tom Wolfe’s best-selling novel of the same name

The Bonfire of the Vanities is a bittersweet portrayal of the late capitalism that characterised Western society in the 1980s and is based on Tom Wolfe’s best-selling novel of the same name.

a scathing satire of the excesses of Wall Street and the New York society of the 1980s

The Bonfire of the Vanities is a scathing satire of the excesses of Wall Street and the New York society of the 1980s.

a piece of fiction that examines the excesses and misconduct of Wall Street from an all-knowing third-person point of view

The Wolf of Wall Street is an autobiography, providing a firsthand account of Belfort’s experiences, while The Bonfire of the Vanities is a piece of fiction that examines the excesses and misconduct of Wall Street from an all-knowing third-person point of view.

a caustic satire on the money-feverish Eighties

The Bonfire of the Vanities is a caustic satire on the money-feverish Eighties.

a satire of 1980s excesses in New York

The Bonfire of the Vanities, published in 1987, was a satire of 1980s excesses in New York and was also made into a film starring Tom Hanks in 1990.

as the quintessential yuppie novel

Tom Wolfe’s potboiler The Bonfire of the Vanities is seen as the quintessential yuppie novel but for me Brightness Falls summed up the folly of the ’80s very much better and with a great deal more humanity.

contemporary

’s Honor Thy Father), satire (George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World), contemporary (Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities) and historical (James Clavell’s Shogun).