Author:Zadie Smith
From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, White Teeth and On Beauty - a masterful and intimate novel of modern London life
'A triumph. Every sentence sings' Guardian
'Intensely funny, richly varied, always unexpected. A joyous, optimistic, angry masterpiece' Daily Telegraph
'Smith's most satisfying novel. Funny, sexy, weird, full of acute social comedy. She's up there with the best around' Evening Standard
Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and complicated. Yet after a chance encounter they each find that the choices they've made, the people they once were and are now, can suddenly, rapidly unravel. Funny, poignant and vividly contemporary, NW is as brimming with vitality as the city itself.
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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