The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel

About this book

Sherman McCoy the central figure of Tom Wolfes first novel is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx prosecutors politicians the press the police the clergy and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him licking their chops and giving us a gargantuan helping of the human comedy of New York in the 1980s a city boiling over with racial and ethnic hostilities and burning with the itch to Grab It Now. Wolfes novel is a big panoramic story of the metropolis that reinforces the authors reputation as the foremost chronicler of the way we live in America.