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Back to Blood
Contributor(s): Wolfe, Tom (Author)
ISBN: 0316036331     ISBN-13: 9780316036337
Publisher: Back Bay Books
OUR PRICE:   $29.44  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2013
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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
 
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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.