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Bonfire Of The Vanities
Paperback Edition: 1
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 Wolfe's reputation as the foremost chronicler of his age.
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Pages : 720
Publisher : Vintage Books
Publication date : 2010-01-07
Subjects: Fiction, Classics (pre C.1945), Contemporary, Historical Fiction