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Back to Blood
Tom Wolfe
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Description for Back to Blood
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 46. Weight in Grams: 514.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
720
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
720
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099578536
SKU
V9780099578536
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-3
About Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was 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, I Am Charlotte Simmons and Back to Blood. He received the National Book Foundation's 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
Reviews for Back to Blood
Back to Blood dazzles so much that you might want to read it through dark glasses
Simon O’Hagan
Independent on Sunday
Tom 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
Scotsman ... Read more
Simon O’Hagan
Independent on Sunday
Tom 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
Scotsman ... Read more