The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe covers The ideal chocolate box image

The ideal chocolate box image many holidaying to our Sceptred Isle have in their minds eye may be true in some cases

A boy named David sits beside her

she writes

including the need for parents to impose limits on children

Amelia Earhart and Marie Curie

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe covers The ideal chocolate box imageAn exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American prose Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in a hit and run accident in the Bronx. Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians and clergy