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Tom Wolfe novel 'Back to Blood' set in Miami

Discussion in 'Miami In The Media' started by bigswinging, May 25, 2012.

  1. bigswinging Member

    Best selling author Tom Wolfe is set to take on Miami.

    A documentary chronicling the research behind the writing will also be released:
    Tom Wolfe film follows master satirist in Miami


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    http://www.amazon.com/Back-Blood-No...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337977303&sr=1-1

    Publication Date: October 23, 2012
    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 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, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist and his Latina nurse by day, loin lock 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, yenta-heavy ex-New Yorkers at an "Active Adult" condo, and 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.
  2. Afi K. James Member

    This is gonna be so nice.
  3. bigswinging Member

    Tom Wolfe to kick off book fair Nov. 11
    http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/09/21/3014078/tom-wolfe-to-kick-off-book-fair.html

    Back to Blood... threatens to do for Miami what The Bonfire of the Vanities did for New York in 1987 and A Man in Full did for Atlanta, Georgia, in 1998 – namely threaten to reveal the simmering racial tensions, political corruption and sexual and economic finagling to be found at every level of the sun-kiss'd Floridan metropolis. There will be trouble. There will be raucous discussion. There will be blood.
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/tom-wolfe-americas-allseeing-eye-8139988.html
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