![]() ![]() The story of McCoy’s subsequent downfall is told alongside those of three other men, all characterised by their raging ambition and vanity: an alcoholic tabloid journalist desperate for a scoop a power-hungry pastor and a district attorney keen to impress one of his former jury members, the brown-lipsticked Miss Shelly Thomas. ![]() His mastery is punctured, however, when, with his mistress at the wheel, his Mercedes hits and fatally injures a young black man in the Bronx. 21, 1990: Ridiculed by critics and ignored by audiences, The Bonfire of the Vanities. produced movie premiered in theaters three decades ago on Dec. Sherman McCoy, known to himself as a “Master of the Universe”, is a millionaire bond trader at Wall Street’s Pierce and Pierce, where the roar of the trading floor “resonate with his very gizzard”. But no one was laughing when the Warner Bros. But the ability to “capture the decade” isn’t the only measure of a writer’s ability, and like a hot-pink puffball dress, this story displays a blithe disregard for nuance. as the high-society satire The Bonfire of the Vanities and the nonfiction works. S o regularly is Tom Wolfe’s brash 1987 tome described as “the quintessential novel of the 80s” that you almost feel the phrase could be slapped on as a subtitle. Her first success came in 1960 when, shortly after moving from her Ohio. ![]()
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