The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe covers including the need for parents

including the need for parents to impose limits on children

Amelia Earhart and Marie Curie

A boy named David sits beside her

Praise for How to Eat a Peach:'This is an extraordinary piece of food writing

According to the Greek creation myth

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe covers including the need for parentsAn exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American prose 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