Born in 1931, Tom Wolfe is a famous American journalist who did not publish his first novel until 1987. He is certainly not a prolific novelist, having to date only published three. All are, however, very long books.
Tom Wolfe is a modern American Dickens who paints vivid pictures of sections of American culture and society on a large canvas. His three novels are:
The Bonfire Of The Vanities (1987)
A biting satire of 1980s New York. A masterpiece.
A Man In Full (1998)
The themes here are race relations in the Deep South, dirty dealings in the worlds of real estate, banking and local politics, and the obscene contrast between the super-rich and the dispirited poor. A brilliant novel.
I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004)
A naïve country girl wins a scholarship to a top American university in this somewhat flawed but nevertheless highly entertaining novel.
Click on titles for Amazon product links.
Leave a Reply