The Bonfire of the Vanities

About this book

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 Wolfes reputation as the foremost chronicler of his age.