Imprint: Vintage
Published: 02/07/2013
ISBN: 9780099578536
Length: 720 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 44mm x 129mm
Weight: 490g
RRP: £10.99
The Bonfire of the Vanities author, Tom Wolfe, ingeniously dissects the turbulent heart of America’s racial vortex in this exhilarating tale of sweltering Miami
As the police boat speeds across Miami’s Biscayne Bay, the scene is set for Officer Nestor Camacho’s great moment of heroism. Except that in this feverous melting pot of a city, Nestor's one act of heroism can be seen as an utter betrayal of his Cuban roots.
As Nestor’s world disintegrates – his family disowns him, he can’t get a Cuban coffee without ugly stares, and his girlfriend Magdalena leaves him for her sex-addiction psychiatrist boss – his quest to right the wrongs brings him into contact with the full panorama of modern Miami. The Cuban mayor, a Yale-marinated journalist, the black police chief, the clueless baying art-buyers and an Anglo billionaire porn addict all come up for scrutiny in Tom Wolfe’s high-energy, scrupulous and hilarious reckoning with our times.
‘Back to Blood dazzles so much that you might want to read it through dark glasses’ – Independent on Sunday
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 02/07/2013
ISBN: 9780099578536
Length: 720 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 44mm x 129mm
Weight: 490g
RRP: £10.99
Back to Blood dazzles so much that you might want to read it through dark glasses
Tom Wolfe returns with a thunderous thwack, fizzing outrageously with a slipstreamed comet of a novel… It’s even better than his great hit The Bonfire of the Vanities. Unmissable stuff
Exhilarating… The satire is scalpel-like and very funny.
Energising, fascinating – and utterly exhausting.
If this novel were rushed into A&E, it would immediately be put under heavy sedation.