num_pages: 659
description: 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 close in on him, determined to bring him down. "The Bonfire of the Vanities" is a caustic satire on the money-feverish Eighties. This exuberant novel cemented Wolfe's reputation as the foremost chronicler of his age.
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: 79420
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: Farrar Straus & Giroux