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The Bonfire of the Vanities

The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities
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'Tom Wolfe: The Bonfire of the Vanities ' összes példány
Kiadó: Farrar Straus Giroux
Kiadás helye: New York
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Kötés típusa: Félvászon
Oldalszám: 659 oldal
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Nyelv: Angol  
Méret: 24 cm x 16 cm
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Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first növel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak aecident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low elose in on him, licking their chops and giving us a gargantuan helping of the humán comedy of New York in the last years of the twentieth century, a city boiling over with racial and ethnic hostilities and burning with the itch to Grab It Now. Wolfe's gallery ranges from Wall Street, where people in their thirties feel like small-fry if they're not vet making a millión per, to the real streets, where the aim is lower but the itch is just as virulent. We see this feverish landscape through the eves of McCoy's wife and his mistress; the young prosecutor for whom the McCoy case would be the answer to a prayer; the ne'er-do-well British journalist who needs such a case to save his career in America; the... Tovább

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Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first növel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak aecident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low elose in on him, licking their chops and giving us a gargantuan helping of the humán comedy of New York in the last years of the twentieth century, a city boiling over with racial and ethnic hostilities and burning with the itch to Grab It Now. Wolfe's gallery ranges from Wall Street, where people in their thirties feel like small-fry if they're not vet making a millión per, to the real streets, where the aim is lower but the itch is just as virulent. We see this feverish landscape through the eves of McCoy's wife and his mistress; the young prosecutor for whom the McCoy case would be the answer to a prayer; the ne'er-do-well British journalist who needs such a case to save his career in America; the street-wise Irish lawyer who becomes McCoy's only ally; and Reverend Bacon of Harlem, a master manipulator of public opinion. Above all, we see what happens when the criminal justice system -gorged with "the chow," as the Bronx prosecutor calls the borough's usual black and Latin felons-considers the prospect (continued on back flap) Vissza

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