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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100374115370
ISBN-139780374115371
eBay Product ID (ePID)184016
Product Key Features
Book TitleBonfire of the Vanities
Number of Pages552 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1990
TopicGeneral, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorTom Wolfe
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height2.1 in
Item Weight39.6 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Edition DescriptionDeluxe
SynopsisSherman 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. Wolfe's novel is a big, panoramic story of the metropolis that reinforces the author's reputation as the foremost chronicler of the way we live in America.