Back to Blood Contributor(s): Wolfe, Tom (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316036331 ISBN-13: 9780316036337 Publisher: Back Bay Books OUR PRICE: $29.44 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Political - Fiction | Satire - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.6" W x 8.9" (1.75 lbs) 720 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Florida - Locality - Miami, Florida |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay -- with officer Nestor Camacho on board -- Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist and his Latina nurse by day, loin lock by night-until lately, the love of Nestor's life; a refined, and oh-so-light-skinned young woman from Haiti and her Creole-spouting, black-gang-banger-stylin' little brother; a billionaire porn addict, crack dealers in the 'hoods, "de-skilled" conceptual artists at the Miami Art Basel Fair, "spectators" at the annual Biscayne Bay regatta looking only for that night's orgy, yenta-heavy ex-New Yorkers at an "Active Adult" condo, and a nest of shady Russians. Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous bestselling novels, Back to Blood is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times. |