num_pages: 730
description: One night in the Bronx a millionaire, Sherman McCoy, and his mistress have an accident. The next day a young Black is in hospital in a coma as McCoy heads for disaster. His humiliation is at the centre of a satire on the decaying class, racial and political structure of New York in the 1980s.
language: English
title: The Bonfire of the Vanities
titlecomplete: The 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: Picador