Displaying 1 of 1 1987 Format: Book Author: Wolfe, Tom. Title: The bonfire of the vanities / Tom Wolfe. Publisher, Date: New York : Farrar, Straus Giroux, ©1987, 1988 printing. Description: 659 pages ; 24 cm Summary: Sherman McCoy, a young investment banker in Manhattan, finds himself arrested following a freak accident and becomes involved with prosecutors, politicians, the press, and assorted hustlers. Subjects: City and town life -- Fiction. Traffic accidents -- Fiction. Stockbrokers -- Fiction. American fiction -- 20th century. New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction. Genre: Legal fiction (Literature) Notes: Closed stack. Read in Special Collections room only. Contents: The master of the universe -- Gibraltar -- From the fiftieth floor -- King of the jungle -- The girl with brown lipstick -- A leader of the people -- Catching the fish -- The case -- Some Brit named Fallow -- Saturday's saturnine lunchtime -- The words on the floor -- The last of the great smokers -- The day-glo eel -- I don't know how to lie -- The masque of the red death -- Tawkin Irish -- The favor bank -- Shuhmun -- Donkey loyalty -- Calls from above -- The fabulous koala -- Styrofoam peanuts -- Inside the cavity -- The informants -- We the jury -- Death New York style -- Hero of the hive -- Off to a better place -- The rendezvous -- An able pupil -- Into the solar plexus -- Financier is arraigned. LCCN: 87017691 ISBN: 0374115346 9780374115340 0312427573 9780312427573 0374115370 9780374115371 0553275976 9780312427573 (pbk.) 0312427573 (pbk.) Other Number: 16085837 System Availability: 3 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 3 Control Number: 730594 # Local items in: 2 # System items in: 2 Call Number: FICTION Wolfe Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1