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Bonfire of the Vanities
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1987
- Pages
- Pages 690
A Wall Street trader who fancies himself a master of the universe takes a wrong turn into the Bronx with a mistress, and after their car injures a young man in the dark, the scandal strips him of his fortune, marriage and sense of himself.
On Wall Street he and a few others—how many?—three hundred, four hundred, five hundred?—had become precisely that…Masters of the Universe.
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