"The Bonfire of the Vanities" Book 1987 Wolfe, Tom

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WOLFE, Tom

[659] pp.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

1987

First Printing

9 1/2" x 6 3/8"

Sherman McCoy, the central … Read more WOLFE, Tom

[659] pp.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

1987

First Printing

9 1/2" x 6 3/8"

Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. 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. 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. See less