num_pages: 2
description: 2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by John LithgowAgainst a New York landscape teeming with detail and the kind of dead-on observation that is Tom Wolfe's trademark, we meet Sherman McCoy, a young investment banker who's got it all: the right high-paying, high-powered job on Wall Street, the right connections, the right co-op, the right wife and child, the right mistress.Life is good for Sherman McCoy . . . until . . . he's involved in a freak accident in the Bronx. Suddenly, prosecutors, politicians, the press, police, clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low are closing in on him, licking their chops.Here is a big, rich, panoramic story of a city where everybody is burning with the itch to Grab It Now.
language: English
title: Bonfire of the Vanities
titlecomplete: Bonfire of the Vanities
characters: Linwood Talley, Ferdinand Arguello, Greg Rosenwald, Miss Lyons, John Campbell McCoy, Brian Highridge, Alex Britt-Withers, Eugene Lopwitz, Kate di Ducci, Gil Archer, Asher Herzfeld, Baron Hochswald, St. John Thomas, Arthur Ruskin, Sherman McCoy, Caroline Heftshank, Bernard Levy, Peter Fallow, Guliaggi, Gloria Dawson, Lewis Sanderson, Warren Bottomley, Huck Thigg, Nick Stopping, Annie Lamb, Irv Stone, Jimmy Caughey, Mike Bellavita, Red Pitt
genres: Fiction, American, Humor, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, New York, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 79415
places: New York (State), New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Random House US Audio