Back to Blood Large Print Edition Contributor(s): Wolfe, Tom (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316224243 ISBN-13: 9780316224246 Publisher: Little Brown and Company OUR PRICE: $56.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Political - Fiction | Satire - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2012019545 |
Physical Information: 2.4" H x 6.5" W x 9.5" (3.55 lbs) 896 pages |
Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Florida - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - 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. |