Back to Blood, English edition - A Novel
Verlag | Little, Brown Book Group |
Auflage | 2014 |
Seiten | 768 |
Format | 10,6 x 19,2 x 3,5 cm |
Gewicht | 384 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 0316036323 |
EAN | 9780316036320 |
Bestell-Nr | 31603632EA |
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.
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PRAISE FOR TOM WOLFE:
Bonfire of the Vanities (1987):
"A big, bitter, funny, craftily plotted book that grabs you by the lapels and won\'t let go."-New York Times Book Review