The Bonfire of the Vanities - Narrative Active 5

At the pinnacle of power and glory, Sherman McCoy is a Wall Street yuppie who earns a million dollars a year, lives in a luxurious apartment, fully enjoys life and a spectacular high-class mistress. Until one day his luck changes: his car hits a black boy in a rundown neighborhood, and McCoy begins a sudden and dizzying fall from his position as master of the universe, becoming prey for the countless vultures circling around him... With viperine cynicism and large doses of black humor, The Bonfire of the Vanities is the novel that best portrays late 20th-century New York, a colossal fair of vanities.