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The Bonfire of the Vanities Condition:Good and madmen found themselves inSherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him, licking their chops and giving us a gargantuan helping of the human comedy of New York in the last years of the twentieth century, a city boiling over