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The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (first British edition)
WOLFE, Tom. The Bonfire of the Vanities. London: Jonathan Cape, 1988.
First British edition.
Wolfe’s big, panoramic first novel that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style. Sherman McCoy, the central figure of the book, is a young investment banker with a lavish 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 hustler - high and low – line up to devour him in the charged atmosphere of New York in the 1980s, a city boiling over with racial and ethnic hostilities and gargantuan greed. Adapted to film in 1990 by director Brian De Palma, starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Morgan Freeman.
HB (ISBN: 9780224024396). 659 pp. Pages browned. Very good in dust-jacket (price-clipped).