Back To Blood: A Novel.
WOLFE, Tom.
Back To Blood: A Novel.
"your interviews have vastly enhanced my status! ...and I had a great time, too!" Uncorrected Proof of the First Edition of Tom Wolfe's Back to Blood; Lengthily inscribed by Him
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.
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Uncorrected proof of the first edition of Wolfe’s fourth novel. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Rick your interviews have vastly enhanced my status! …and I had a great time, too! Tom Wolfe.” In fine condition. Cover design by Oliver Munday.
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 our hero, officer Nestor Camacho, on board-Tom Wolfe is off and running headlong into the only city in the world where people from a different country with a different language and a different culture have taken over at the ballot box. This melting pot is full of hard cases who just won't melt, damn it: a Cuban mayor; a black police chief; a hot young reporter and a timid editor of the Miami Herald, both WASPs who went to Yale; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist who keeps his lovely Latina nurse, Magdalena, in his bed and his star patient, a porn-addicted billionaire, on a string; a status-addled Haitian professor who thinks he's really French and wants his pale-skinned daughter to "pass" and his Creole-spouting son to be quiet. Then there are the clueless collectors who "See it! Like it! Buy it!," spending tens of millions per minute on de-skilled art at Miami Art Basel; black drug dealers colliding with the Cuban cops; Columbus Day Regatta "spectators" who only have eyes for the annual après-race orgy; and "Active Adult" condos full of yenta-heavy ex-New Yorkers, not to mention 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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