Tom Wolfe
NZ RRP: $37.99
Jonathan Cape
Tom Wolfe is back, with perhaps his most brilliant novel since
The Bonfire of the Vanities, jettisoning us into the turbulent heart of
America’s racial vortex: Miami.
Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene,
high-energy reporting that powered Wolfe’s previous bestselling novels, The
Bonfire of the Vanities and Man in Full, Back to Blood is
another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our
times.
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, an ambitious young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; a
psychiatrist who specialises in sex addiction and his Latina nurse by day,
mistress 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, and a nest of shady
Russians.
Tom Wolfe is
the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Electric Kool-Aid Acid
Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man
in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. A native of Richmond, Virginia,
he earned his B.A. at Washington and Lee University and a
Ph.D. in American studies at Yale. He lives in New York City.
Pic right - in his NY apartment. USA Today.
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