WOLFE, TOM — Bonfire of the Vanities

New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux. 1987, Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Book, 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.623p. Fine/Near Fine - Price Clipped.