Back to Blood A Novel (Audible Audio Edition) Tom Wolfe Lou Diamond Phillips Hachette Audio Books
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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 best-selling novels, Back to Blood is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times.
Back to Blood A Novel (Audible Audio Edition) Tom Wolfe Lou Diamond Phillips Hachette Audio Books
I like Tom Wolfe. I've loved all of his novels. I read a scathing review of this book by some wag in the WSJ. That review delayed my reading this, thinking the old man was mailing it in, but read it eventually I did. And I'm glad I did. The story is interesting and has many intersections like Wolfe always does. His insight into the human condition, especially the running commentary inside each person's head is still spot-on, in my opinion. There are a few times when the writing is somewhat like a caricature of Tom Wolfe, but, it's not often and it's no reason to avoid this book. While it could have benefited from tighter editing, Tom Wolfe is a legend and clearly has carte blanche here. Some of it is a little indulgent, but most of it is good and some of it is poignant and insightful. It is a long book but it doesn't feel long. I was very surprised to find myself 400 pages in before too long. And any book that flies by is a good book to me. The "No Hands" art movement bit was genius.Product details
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Back to Blood A Novel (Audible Audio Edition) Tom Wolfe Lou Diamond Phillips Hachette Audio Books Reviews
I opened Tom Wolfe's Back To Blood on Thursday afternoon! It is now Saturday afternoon and every word on each of the 704 pages has been digested! I guess I could simply end my overview with that! However, it can not go unsaid that Tom Wolfe engages the reader from the first page whetheimages-2r it be Bonfire of the Vanities or my favorite Wolfe novel, I am Charlotte Simmons.
Back to Blood catapults the reader into the political and social structure of Miami. There is little left out of this vivid painting. A WASP publisher of the Miami Herald seeks to avoid controversy at all costs. Add to the mix a young aspiring reporter, A black chief of police, a Cuban mayor, and a police officer, also Cuban, who with great consistency finds himself in the middle of two huge stories that threaten the delicate balance between all of the competing constituencies within this cosmopolitan melting pot. There is also plenty of humor, bringing back images of Lucky You by Carl Hiaasen, another Miami based novel.
With great skill, Wolfe introduces the ethnic beauty of the women of Miami who play a major role adding to the complexity of relationships as played out by the protagonist police officer Nestor Camacho. There are dozens of contemporary themes as a video of a police drug take down goes viral, a local psychiatrist specializing in pornographic addiction becomes a high-profile TV Doctor, a stunning light-skinned Haitian woman of French heritage is a love interest. Miami Art Basel and a new Miami Art Museum become a focal point in a fake painting fraud perpetuated by a Russian Oligarch and his entourage. Wolfe carefully and with great creativity brings all of these factions together in a tumultuous conclusion.
Place Back to Blood on the Christmas gift list for friends who enjoy a good read. Pick up the hard cover as any Tom Wolfe novel is worth a permanent place in a book lovers library. Luckily, Back to Blood arrived when the family was traveling and I only had my dog to offend with my face in a book for two days.
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I am a Wolfe devotee, I'll admit it. And even so, other than Bonfire his endings have always seemed either rushed, contrived or just plain dumb (Man in Full and I Am Charlotte, in particular). But I digress.
This book is well researched to give the reader some ground and realism to the area and provide scenery, if you will, for the story. So we get to experience the racial tension (Anglo, Black, Cuban) and how they see each other. Plus the art scene, money money money, and of course ... graphic sexual departures. Some might argue Wolfe's insistence to have a certain amount of edge to it. It's entertaining.
Lots of idiosyncratic characters to love and hate. Nestor the cop extraordinaire and Magdalena his gorgeous girlfriend of three years who really wants to break out of the low-middle class concrete front lawns of her upbringing and move into something glamorous. She is greatly influenced by wealth and as her psycho-porno-doctor's nurse she excuses much. Too much. She doesn't see herself for what she truly is--an expensive whore.
Nestor saves an illegal immigrant who strands himself on a high mast by "saving" him and carrying him down the mast. The illegal will be deported and therefore Nestor is branded SHUNNED by his community and family. Traitor. And this is how the story opens.
The plot twists and turns with great Wolfe weaving ... dodging and darting, weird use of punctuation (why does he do this?) but it all works. And unlike the other novels, a great compelling ending that comes about only in the last sentence. Good job, Tom. Now give up the white suits. Or at least, get over them.
Those gronks on who say in their review of "Back to Blood" that Tom Wolfe should retire, just can't see that he is the Karl Lagerfeld of fiction writers. He gets better with age, and is more modern a thinker than those one third of his age.
Noone does richer social and subcultural commentary than Tom Wolfe, and this book is no exception.
The only thing that pisses me off is that Tom Wolfe is so bloody slow to bring books out. He's not getting any younger, and I wish he could examine a few more cities before he goes.
I like Tom Wolfe. I've loved all of his novels. I read a scathing review of this book by some wag in the WSJ. That review delayed my reading this, thinking the old man was mailing it in, but read it eventually I did. And I'm glad I did. The story is interesting and has many intersections like Wolfe always does. His insight into the human condition, especially the running commentary inside each person's head is still spot-on, in my opinion. There are a few times when the writing is somewhat like a caricature of Tom Wolfe, but, it's not often and it's no reason to avoid this book. While it could have benefited from tighter editing, Tom Wolfe is a legend and clearly has carte blanche here. Some of it is a little indulgent, but most of it is good and some of it is poignant and insightful. It is a long book but it doesn't feel long. I was very surprised to find myself 400 pages in before too long. And any book that flies by is a good book to me. The "No Hands" art movement bit was genius.
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