Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Book Review of The Bonfire of the Vanities

The Bonfire of the Vanities
reviewed on + 41 more book reviews


Step into the world of Sherman McCoy--One of Wall Street's top bond salesmen, he lives in a sumptuous fourteen-room duplex apartment on Park Avenue--"the Best Section of the capital of the Western World in the late twentieth century." Then one day a bizarre incident in the Bronx thrusts him into the center of every racial, economic, sexual, social and political tension in New York City.....