About This Book
“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.”
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.
See also:
- [The Bonfire of the Vanities: 1/2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1925368W)
- [The Bonfire of the Vanities: 2/2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1925369W)
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Also contained in:
- [Two Complete Books](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1925447W/Two_Complete_Books)
[1]: http://tomwolfe.com/Bonfire.html
