New York City: A Burning Portrait of Urban America
The Bonfire of the Vanities tells the story of an encounter that should never have happened, between a Wall Street golden boy, Sherman McCoy, and two young black men from the South Bronx, on a motorway access road. McCoy will be accused of having accidentally hit one of his two attackers with his M...
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Journal of Urban Research
2026
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| Summary: | The Bonfire of the Vanities tells the story of an encounter that should never have happened, between a Wall Street golden boy, Sherman McCoy, and two young black men from the South Bronx, on a motorway access road. McCoy will be accused of having accidentally hit one of his two attackers with his Mercedes coupé, and will end up losing his job, his friends, and everything he owns. “I’m already dead, or the Sherman McCoy of the McCoy family and Yale and Park Avenue and Wall Street is dead” (57... |
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