The Bonfire of the Vanities ~ Tom Wolfe
New York: Farrar‚ Straus & Giroux‚ 1987‚ Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
*** First Edition ***

CONDITION NOTES

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Gently bruised at the spine ends and corners with matching wear to the dust wrapper which is a touch age-toned. Gift inscription to the first blank.

ABOUT THIS BOOK

From the cover: “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 last years of the twentieth century‚ a city boiling over with racial and ethnic hostilities and burning with the itch to Grab It Now. Wolfe’s gallery ranges from Wall Street‚ where people in their thirties feel like small-fry if they’re not yet making a million per‚ to the real streets‚ where the aim is lower but the itch is just as virulent.

We see this feverish landscape through the eyes of McCoy’s wife and his mistress; the young prosecutor for whom the McCoy case would be the answer to a prayer; the ne’er-do-well British journalist who needs such a case to…

  • Cover art by Fred Marcellino
  • 9½” x 6¼”
  • 659 pages.
  • ISBN: 0-3741-1534-6
  • Dustwrapper over Quarter-Bound Grey on Pink boards‚ with Black titling to the Spine.
  • Packed Weight: 1.90 Kg.









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