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- Product code: 267375
- ISBN: 0330305735,
ISBN13: 9780330305730,
752 pages, Paperback
Published by Picador on 1999
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Description of Bonfire of the Vanities |
The timeless novel of the 80s
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 DA with a lustful eye on the juror wearing brown lipstick . . . The Reverend Reggie Bacon, charismatic ghetto warlord, con man, and power in the streets . . .
The Bonfire of the 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.
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Reviews"One of the funniest, finest, and most dramatic American novels of recent times . . . the most enthralling book I’ve read in years"
- Paul Ableman, Evening Standard
"A superb human comedy and the first novel ever to get contemporary New York, in all its arrogance and shame and heterogeneity and insularity, exactly right"
- Washington Post Book World
"One of the most impressive novels of the decade"
- Library Journal
"Moves with a swift comic logic . . . An innovative and imaginative and intricate plot . . .welds Wolfe's descriptions of dinner parties, restaurant games, Wall Street trading, and courthouse chaos into more than a tour de force"
- Time
"An incandescent sizzler of a novel . . . debut of a Day-Glo Dickens"
- Sunday Times
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