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Book SynopsisVintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style.
No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton (The National Review)
A page-turner . . . Brilliant high comedy. (The New Republic)
Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe''s 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.
Wolfe''s novel is a big, panoramic story of the metropolis that reinforces the author''s reputation as the foremost
