The Bonfire of the Vanities
Edition: printing (9)
Publisher: Picador
Published: 1990
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780330305730
Copyright date: 1987
Subjects: Modern fiction; Fiction
First sentence: AT THAT VERY MOMENT, IN THE VERY SORT OF PARK AVEnue co-op apartment that so obsessed the Mayor...twelve-foot ceilings...two wings, one for the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants who own the place and one for the help...Sherman McCoy was kneeling in his front hall trying to put a leash on a dachshund.
Description: Sherman McCoy, Wall Street bond-trader with a salary like a telephone number ... Peter Fallow, expatriate Fleet Street gossip-writer whose price is a free lunch ... Larry Kramer, assistant DA with a lustful eye on the juror wearing brown lipstick ... Reverend Reggie Bacon, charismatic ghetto warlord, con-man and power in the streets ... 

The Bonfire of the Vanities welds their stories together on a night in the Bronx when a $48,000 Mercedes hits a street it shouldn't have been near with a girl in its tan leather bucket seat who shouldn't have been there at all. The next day a young black accident victim is in hospital in a coma and Sherman McCoy has booked himself a one-way ticket to disaster.
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Notes: UK