Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was a contributing editor to Harper's. Wolfe's gallery ranges from Wall Street, where people in their thirties feel like small-fry if they're not yet making a million per, to the real streets, where the aim is lower but the itch is just as virulent.
When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him, licking their chops and giving us a gargantuan helping of the human comedy of New York, a city boiling over with racial and ethnic hostilities and burning with the itch to Grab It Now. Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment Banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. Contains Prologue and Epilogue, as well as chapters on The Master of the Universe Gibraltar From the Fiftieth Floor King of the Jungle The Girl with Brown Lipstick A Leader of the People Catching the Fish The Case Some Brit Named Fallow Saturday's Saturnine Lunchtime The Words on the Floor The Last of the Great Smokers The Day-Glo Eel I Don't know How to Lie The Masque of the Red Death Tawkin Irish The Favor Bank Shuhmun Donkey Loyalty Calls from Above The Fabulous Koala Styrofoam Peanuts Inside the Cavity The Informants We the Jury Death New York Style Hero of the Hive Off to a Better Place The Rendezvous An Able Pupil Into the Solar Plexus and Epilogue/ Financier Is Arraigned. Signed by the author on the front end paper.
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