Pros & Cons
Pros
Sherman mccoy is a rich wasp with the perfect wife, the perfect apartment and the perfect mistress. He and his mistress are involved in a hit and run accident in the bronx that leaves a black youth in a coma. Wolfe is someone who's deep.
Cons
This is pre-guiliani new york city, so crime rates are still quite high. If my review seems needlessly and gratuitously * it is because the book is so. No redeemable characters, and indulgent descriptions of how rich people of nyc act. Ending is ridic... Read More
Highlights
Quality
A fun story with the proper twist at the end
All characters from all walks of life are parodied and rightly so with the one exception of the brilliant judge myron kovitsky ... Read More
Competitiveness
This story certainly gave me a news perspective on the world
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Forces beyond his control led by a black activist minister a jewish da running for reelection a muckraking tabloid journalist and a dogged irish detective track sherman down
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Never got around to reading this classic
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Or utterly disintegrate into foul parodies of their former selves
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An 80s novel that shows not much has changed
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I found two depressing realizations in the novel
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We have seen thousands suffer similar fates since and if we make one politically incorrect move however unintentional our lives are over
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Second that the constant fear of riots vandalism and looting is here to stay
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Only the forms of appeasement change from decade to decade