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The
Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe Sherman
McCoy is a Wall Street bond-trader with an annual salary of a few
bucks less than a million dollars. One night in the Bronx his $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. ‘One
of the funniest, finest and most dramatic American novels of recent
times ….. the most enthralling book I’ve read in years’
‘Erupting
from the first line with noise, colour, tension and immediacy, this
immensely entertaining novel accurately mirrors a system that has
broken down. It is safe to predict that the book will stand as a
brilliant evocation of New York’s class, racial and political
structure in the 1980’s’ ‘One
of the most celebrated bestsellers of the decade, here is Wolfe's
wise and wickedly brilliant novel of lust, greed, Wall Street and
the American way of life in the '80s.’ ‘A
big, bitter, funny, craftily plotted book that grabs you by the
lapels and won't let go.’ Tom Wolfe was born in Virginia and lives in New York. By
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