![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He had crossed over! What a stroke of luck! Not once did it dawn on Sherman McCoy that what the boy had seen was a thirty-eight-year-old white man, soaking wet, dressed in some sort of military-looking raincoat full of straps and buckles, holding a violently lurching animal in his arms, staring, bug-eyed, and talking to himself. The feeble yellow of a sodium-vapor streetlight reflected for an instant on his face as he checked Sherman out. ![]() Well, let him come! I’m not budging! It’s my territory! I’m not giving way for any street punks! The black youth suddenly made a ninety-degree turn and cut straight across the street to the sidewalk on the other side. It was that deep worry that lives in the base of the skull of every resident of Park Avenue south of Ninety-sixth Street-a black youth, tall, rangy, wearing white sneakers. Even from fifty feet away, in the darkness, he could tell. (The New Republic) Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in. “All at once Sherman was aware of a figure approaching him on the sidewalk, in the wet black shadows of the town houses and the trees. Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the 1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style. The Bonfire of the Vanities is the story of Sherman McCoy, a thirty-eight-year-old blue-blooded prince of Park Avenue who can barely afford his 2.6 million apartment and his 1,800 British suits. ![]()
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