The Bonfire of the Vanities

by Tom Wolfe
 
Meet Sherman McCoy: wealthy, entitled, a New York City bond trader locked in a bubble of success that blinds him to virtually everything other than the excesses of his own existence.
 
Fate, however, plays its hand, exposing McCoy to the wild winds of real life: burnt-out judges, sleazy newspaper editors, cops, publicity-hungry clergy, the rank and file of high and low living – all gripped in a picaresque frenzy to unseat our self-proclaimed master of the universe and bring him down to earth.
 
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