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        The Bonfire of the Vanities


        setting

        New York City

        time

        1980s

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1987

        page count

        690

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        Sherman McCoy, Larry Kramer, Peter Fallow, Rev. Reginald Bacon

        Rip's impressions

        Reserved for Guest Editor

        first line

        At that very moment, in the very sort of Park Avenue co-op apartment that so obsessed the Mayor . . . twelve-foot ceilings . . . two wings, one for the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants who own the place and one for the help . . . Sherman McCoy was kneeling in his front hall trying to put a leash on a dachshund.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)