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 our
hero, officer Nestor Camacho, on board-Tom Wolfe is off and running
headlong into the only city in the world where people from a
different country with a different language and a different culture
have taken over at the ballot box.
This melting pot is full of hard cases who just won''t melt,
damn it: a Cuban mayor; a black police chief; a hot young reporter
and a timid editor of the Miami Herald, both WASPs who went to
Yale; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist who keeps his lovely
Latina nurse, Magdalena, in his bed and his star patient, a
porn-addicted billionaire, on a string; a status-addled Haitian
professor who thinks he''s really French and wants his pale-skinned
daughter to "pass" and his Creole-spouting son to be quiet.
Then there are the clueless collectors who "See it! Like it!
Buy it!," spending tens of millions per minute on de-skilled art at
Miami Art Basel; black drug dealers colliding with the Cuban cops;
Columbus Day Regatta "spectators" who only have eyes for the annual
après-race orgy; and "Active Adult" condos full of yenta-heavy
ex-New Yorkers, not to mention 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.
關於作者：
Tom Wolfe is the author of more than a dozen books, among them
such bestselling contemporary classics as 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 B.A. at Washington and Lee University and a Ph.D. in
American studies at Yale. He received the National Book
Foundation''s 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American
Letters. He lives in New York City.
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