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for a $ 600 million bond on which he had pegged all his hopes of paying the loan on his home and covering his family costs. While McCoy is reprimanded by his boss for failing to sell the bond, his lawyer, Tommy Killian, calls to tell him of his upcoming arrest, forcing him to admit his legal problems to his boss, who makes him take a leave of absence as a result. McCoy's
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Abe Weiss pushes for McCoy's arrest. The evidence includes McCoy's car (which matches the description of the vehicle involved in the alleged hit and run), plus McCoy's evasive response to police questioning. The arrest all but ruins McCoy; distraction at work causes him to flub on finding an investor
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Fallow hears a rumor that Maria Ruskin was at the wheel of McCoy's car when it struck Lamb but has fled the country. Trying to uncover the truth, on the pretense of interviewing the rich and famous, Fallow meets with her husband, Arthur, at an expensive French restaurant. While recounting his life,
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apartment, combined with his wife's extravagances and other expenses required to keep up appearances are depleting his great income, or as McCoy calls it, a "hemorrhaging of money." McCoy's secure life as a self-regarded "Master of The Universe" on Wall Street is gradually destroyed when he and his
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contained a new installment. Wolfe was not happy with his "very public first draft," and thoroughly revised his work. Even Sherman McCoy, the central character of the novel, changed—originally a writer, in the book version he is cast as a bond salesman. (Wolfe came up with the revised occupation
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starting in 1984. Wolfe heavily revised it before it was published in book form. The novel was a bestseller and a commercial success, even in comparison with Wolfe's other books. It has often been called the quintessential novel of the 1980s, and in 1990 was adapted into a critically maligned
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writers, whom Wolfe viewed as his models, had often written their novels in serial installments. Wenner offered Wolfe around $ 200,000 to serialize his work. The deadline pressure gave him the motivation he had hoped for, and from July 1984 to August 1985 each biweekly issue of
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praised the book, saying it was "a big, bitter, funny, craftily plotted book that grabs you by the lapels and won't let go", but criticized its sometimes superficial characters, saying when "the book is over, there is an odd aftertaste, not entirely pleasant." However,
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According to Wolfe, the characters are composites of many individuals and cultural observations. However, some characters were based on real people. Wolfe has acknowledged the character of Tommy Killian is based on New York lawyer
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Beneath Wall Street's success, the city was a hotbed of racial and cultural tension. The city was polarized by several high-profile incidents of racism, particularly the murders—in white neighborhoods—of two black men:
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appeared in 1987. The book was a commercial and critical success, spending weeks on bestseller lists and earning praise from much of the literary establishment on which Wolfe had long heaped scorn.
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Wolfe began researching the novel by observing cases at the Manhattan Criminal Court and shadowing members of the Bronx homicide squad. To overcome a case of writer's block, Wolfe wrote to
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look on. Maria is forced to return to the United States for his funeral, where McCoy confronts her about being "the only witness." Fallow overhears that she, not McCoy, was driving.
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Hoping to impress his boss as well as a former juror, Shelly Thomas, Assistant District Attorney Larry Kramer prosecutes the case, opening with an unsuccessful bid to set McCoy's
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Fallow's write-up of the association between Sherman McCoy and Maria Ruskin prompts Assistant D.A. Kramer to offer her a deal: corroborate the other witness and receive
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was Wolfe's first novel. Wolfe's prior works were mostly non-fiction journalistic articles and books. His earlier short stories appeared in his collection
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friends ostracize him, and his wife leaves him and takes their daughter Campbell (McCoy's only source of genuine family love) to live with his parents.
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judge known for his no-nonsense, imperious handling of cases in his courtroom, was the model for the character of Myron Kovitsky in the book.
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became something of a folk-hero in the city for shooting a group of young black men who tried to rob him in the subway in 1984.
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at $ 250,000. Released on $ 10,000 bail, McCoy is besieged by demonstrators who are protesting outside his home.
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success story gone wrong. Fallow's articles on the matter ignite protests and media coverage of the Lamb case.
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owner Sir Gerald Steiner, while Ruskin has escaped prosecution and remarried. McCoy's first trial ends in a
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by a wealthy white driver. Fallow cynically tolerates the manipulations of Reverend Bacon, a
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mistress, Maria Ruskin, accidentally enter the Bronx at night while they are driving back to
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claimed "No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately & devastatingly since
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as journalist (and narrator of the film) Peter Fallow. The screenplay was written by
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Up for re-election and accused of foot-dragging in the Lamb case, the media-obsessed
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published a retrospective on how the city had changed since Wolfe's novel.
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Arthur has a fatal heart attack, as disturbed patrons and an annoyed
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religious and political leader who sees the hospitalized youth as a
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National Review quoted in the Bantam 1990 edition of Wolfe's novel.
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The book was a major bestseller, and also received strong reviews.
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An Afternoon With Ed Hayes, Celebrated Litigator and Memoirist
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Larry Kramer, and British expatriate journalist Peter Fallow.
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of a conversation that contradicts Ruskin's statement to the
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An opera adaptation, with music by Stefania de Kenessey and
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In 2007, on the book's 20th anniversary of publication,
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This article is about the novel. For the 1990 film, see
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Taylor, John (21 March 1988) "The Book on Tom Wolfe",
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after spending a day on the government-bond desk of
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The Bonfire of the Vanities (film)
Bonfire of the vanities

Tom Wolfe
Fred Marcellino
Social criticism
Farrar Straus Giroux
Hardback
Paperback
ISBN
0-312-42757-3
OCLC
213470814
A Man in Full
Tom Wolfe
WASP
bond trader
assistant district attorney
serial
Charles Dickens
Rolling Stone
film of the same name
Brian De Palma
Bonfire of the Vanities
Florence, Italy
Dominican
Girolamo Savonarola
New York City
Willie Turks
Gravesend

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