Bonfire of the Vanities (General) (Picador Books) (The Bestseller Collection)

by Tom Wolfe

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One night in the Bronx a millionaire, Sherman McCoy, and his mistress have an accident. The next day a young Black is in 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.
  • ISBN10 0553275976
  • ISBN13 9780553275971
  • Publish Date 1 November 1988 (first published 31 December 1980)
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Out of Print 15 September 2009
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 704
  • Language English