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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: A Novel
Mar 15, 2012, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
2010, Vintage Books, Vintage Classic
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The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel
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2001-11, Bantam Books
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Le Bucher DES Vanites
November 7, 2001, Livre de Poche
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Het vreugdevuur der ijdelheden
2001, Ooievaar
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
October 1999, Tandem Library
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Fegefeuer der Eitelkeiten. Roman.
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
1994 September, Random House Audiobooks
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1990, Bert Bakker
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990, Picador, Pan Books Ltd
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
1989 April, MacMillan Publishing Company
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1988 July, Books On Tape
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
1988, Picador in association with Cape, Warner Brothers
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
1988, Farrar, Straus Giroux
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1988 December, Bantam Books, Bantam
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
1988, Jonathan Cape
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Le bucher des vanites
1988-08, Sylvie Messinger editrice
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1988, Farrar, Straus Giroux
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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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