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An edition of The Bonfire of the Vanities
(1987)
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Picador edition (1); movie tie-in
by Tom Wolfe
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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 D A with a lustful eye on the juror wearing brown lipstick.. .Reverend Reggie Bacon, charismatic ghetto warlord, con-man and power in the streets...
The Bonfire oft he 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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Fiction, Traffic accidents, City and town life, Stockbrokers, Bankers, Littérature américaine, Fiction, legal, New york (n.y.), fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Large type books, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs Fiction, American fiction, Fiction, generalPeople
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
2010, Vintage Books
Paperback
in English
- printing (10)
0099541270 9780099541271
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Het vreugdevuur der ijdelheden
2001, Ooievaar
Mass Market Paperback
in Dutch
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9057135396 9789057135392
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Le Bucher DES Vanites
November 7, 2001, Livre de Poche
Mass Market Paperback
in French
2253053406 9782253053408
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Het vreugdevuur der ijdelheden
1990, Bert Bakker
Paperback
in Dutch
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9035109511 9789035109513
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990, Picador
Mass Market Paperback
in English
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0330296337 9780330296335
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
1988-12, Bantam Books
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in English
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0553275976 9780553275971
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Le bucher des vanites
1988-08, Sylvie Messinger editrice
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in French
2865831027 9782865831029
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"AT THAT VERY MOMENT, IN THE VERY SORT OF PARK AVEnue co-op apartment that so obsessed the Mayor...twelve-foot ceilings...two wings, one for the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants who own the place and one for the help...Sherman McCoy was kneeling in his front hall trying to put a leash on a dachshund."
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The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City, and centers on three main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish assistant district attorney Larry Kramer, and British expatriate journalist Peter Fallow.
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