The Bonfire of the Vanities
Edition: Picador edition (1); movie tie-in
Publisher: Picador
Published: 1990
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 730
ISBN-13: 9780330296335
Copyright date: 1990 (from back cover)
Subjects: Modern fiction; General; Fiction - General
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 D A 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 oft he 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. 
--back cover
Notes: UK/AUS/NZ