Book description
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, an ambitious young journalist and his
Yale-marinated editor; a psychiatrist who specialises in sex addiction
and his Latina nurse by day, mistress 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, and a nest of shady Russians.
Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting
that powered Tom Wolfe's previous best-selling novels, The Bonfire
of the Vanities and A Man in Full, Back to Blood
is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious
reckoning with our times.
Class, family, wealth and corruption are all themes in this
examination of life in Miami Sunday Business Post Tom Wolfe is the
author of more than a dozen books, among them
The Electric Kool-Aid
Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in
Full,
and
I Am Charlotte Simmons
. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his BA at Washington and Lee
University and a PhD in American studies at Yale. He lives in New York
City.
