The Bonfire of the Vanities
Edition: printing (10)
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9780099541271
Copyright date: 1987
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.
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Notes: UK