Author:Tom Wolfe
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
Back to Blood dazzles so much that you might want to read it through dark glasses
—— Simon O’Hagan , Independent on SundayTom 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
—— Tom Adair , ScotsmanExhilarating… The satire is scalpel-like and very funny.
—— Wynn Wheldon , SpectatorEnergising, fascinating – and utterly exhausting.
—— Tim Walker , IndependentIf this novel were rushed into A&E, it would immediately be put under heavy sedation.
—— Peter Kemp , Sunday TimesThere is more dynamism, risk-taking and crazed energy in Wolfe’s writing than in all the Brit novels I’ve read this year.
—— Rose Tremain , GuardianBack to Blood, a remarkable feat for a writer now 81, gives Miami the full Tom Wolfe treatment... Nobody else writes like this and it is still an astonishingly extravagant performance.
—— David Sexton , Evening StandardTom Wolfe...remains The Dude when it comes to surveying the crazed, bracing absurdities of our national life… Back to Blood is marked by both Wolfe’s stylistic freneticim and his formidable reportorial gifts… Beginning his ninth decade, Tom Wolfe has brio to burn.
—— Douglas Kennedy , The TimesMr Wolfe’s satirical aim at the debauchery and landscape of avarice and arrogance is gleefully accurate.
—— The Economist[A] huge, very loud [new novel], MOSTLY IN CAPITALS, from Tom Wolfe, Back to Blood.
—— Justine Jordan , GuardianHe is, still, at his best in the thick of a crowd, a master of group dynamics, at once in breathless close-up and sudden wide-angle.
—— Tom Adams , ObserverFor Christmas, I will give to dinner party conversationalists:... Tom Wolfe’s Back to Blood.
—— Fay Weldon , Daily TelegraphWhat really drives all this is Wolfe’s extraordinary style.
—— Robert Murphy , MetroAs broad and panoramic as ever.
—— Craig Brown , Mail on SundayThere are some dazzling satirical riffs and politically incorrect laughs.
—— Jake Kerridge , Sunday ExpressWolfe’s prose is as punchy as ever.
—— Time OutEnergetically set against the deco licentiousness of Florida’s steamiest party capital.
—— VogueClass, family, wealth and corruption are all themes in this examination of life in Miami.
—— Sunday Business Post[Tells] us about the way we live now... enjoyable.
—— Wynn Wheldon , SpectatorClassic Wolfe. A delight
—— William Leith , Evening StandardEpic, hectic, satirical… It’s scathing, funny, and has great set-piece scenes
—— Brandon Robshaw , Independent on SundayContemporary Miami gets the Wolfe treatment in a grand, sweeping satire on race, class, lust and immigration
—— Sunday TelegraphWonderful
—— Robert Bound , MonocleParks is one of the best living writers of English, and this book is so good you don't want it to end
—— Nicholas Lezard , GuardianIf, like me, you relish Italy, railways and grumbling, this is the most transporting book
—— Christopher Hirst , IndependentA fun, informative and detailed journey
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