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• Title:The bonfire of the vanities / Tom Wolfe.
  
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• Author/Creator:Wolfe, Tom, author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Picador, ©2004.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY learning commons (level 2)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PS3573.O526 B6 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:City and town life--Fiction.
  Traffic accidents--Fiction.
  Stockbrokers--Fiction.
  New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
  
• Genre/Form:Legal fiction (Literature)
  
• Description:685 pages ; 21 cm
  
• Summary:"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" -- Amazon.com.
  One night in the Bronx a millionaire, Sherman McCoy, and his mistress have an accident. The next day a young Black is in a hospital in a coma as McCoy heads for disaster. His humiliation is at the centre of a satire on the decaying class, racial and political structure of New York in the 1980s.
  
• ISBN:9780312427573
  0312427573 (pbk.)