Back to Blood: A Novel
Autor Tom Wolfeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 ian 2014
A
big,
panoramic
story
of
the
new
America,
as
told
by
our
master
chronicler
of
the
way
we
live
now.
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.
| Toate formatele și edițiile | Preț | Express |
|---|---|---|
| Paperback (3) | 82.79 lei 17-24 zile | +7.17 lei 6-12 zile |
| Little, Brown and Company – 27 ian 2014 | 82.79 lei 17-24 zile | +7.17 lei 6-12 zile |
| Vintage Publishing – 2 iul 2013 | 133.96 lei 3-5 săpt. | +21.04 lei 6-12 zile |
| Little, Brown and Company – iul 2013 | 202.27 lei 3-5 săpt. | |
| Hardback (1) | 395.03 lei 3-5 săpt. | |
| Little, Brown and Company – 22 oct 2012 | 395.03 lei 3-5 săpt. |
Preț: 82.79 lei
Nou
Puncte Express: 124
Preț estimativ în valută:
15.85€ • 16.47$ • 13.14£
15.85€ • 16.47$ • 13.14£
Carte disponibilă
Livrare economică 13-20 ianuarie 25
Livrare express 02-08 ianuarie 25 pentru 17.16 lei
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316036320
ISBN-10: 0316036323
Pagini: 768
Dimensiuni: 108 x 191 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
ISBN-10: 0316036323
Pagini: 768
Dimensiuni: 108 x 191 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
Notă biografică
Tom
Wolfe
is
the
author
of
more
than
a
dozen
books,
among
them
such
bestselling
contemporary
classics
asThe
Electric
Kool-Aid
Acid
Test,
The
Right
Stuff,
The
Bonfire
of
the
Vanities,
A
Man
in
Full,andI
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.
Recenzii
PRAISE
FOR
TOM
WOLFE:
Bonfire of the Vanities(1987):
"A big, bitter, funny, craftily plotted book that grabs you by the lapels and won't let go."—New York Times Book Review
"A superb human comedy and the first novel ever to get contemporary New York, in all its arrogance and shame and heterogeneity and insularity, exactly right."—Washington Post Book World
A Man in Full(1998):
"The novel contains passages as powerful and as beautiful as anything written--not merely by contemporary American novelists but by any American novelist....The book is as funny as anything Wolfe has ever written; at the same time it is also deeply, strangely affecting."—New York Times Book Review
I Am Charlotte Simmons(2004):
"Wolfe is one of the greatest literary stylists and social observers of our much observed postmodern era....A rich, wise, absorbing, and irresistible novel."—Lev Grossman,Time
"Wolfe's dialogue is some of the finest in literature, not just fast but deep. He hears the cacophony of our modern lives."—Los Angeles Times
"Brilliant...I couldn't stop reading it....Tom Wolfe can make words dance and sing and perform circus tricks, he can make the reader sigh with pleasure."—Michael Dirda,Washington Post
Bonfire of the Vanities(1987):
"A big, bitter, funny, craftily plotted book that grabs you by the lapels and won't let go."—New York Times Book Review
"A superb human comedy and the first novel ever to get contemporary New York, in all its arrogance and shame and heterogeneity and insularity, exactly right."—Washington Post Book World
A Man in Full(1998):
"The novel contains passages as powerful and as beautiful as anything written--not merely by contemporary American novelists but by any American novelist....The book is as funny as anything Wolfe has ever written; at the same time it is also deeply, strangely affecting."—New York Times Book Review
I Am Charlotte Simmons(2004):
"Wolfe is one of the greatest literary stylists and social observers of our much observed postmodern era....A rich, wise, absorbing, and irresistible novel."—Lev Grossman,Time
"Wolfe's dialogue is some of the finest in literature, not just fast but deep. He hears the cacophony of our modern lives."—Los Angeles Times
"Brilliant...I couldn't stop reading it....Tom Wolfe can make words dance and sing and perform circus tricks, he can make the reader sigh with pleasure."—Michael Dirda,Washington Post
Descriere
Descriere de la o altă ediție sau format:
The Bonfire of the Vanities author, Tom Wolfe, ingeniously dissects the turbulent heart of America's racial vortex in this exhilarating tale of sweltering MiamiAs the police boat speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay, the scene is set for Officer Nestor Camacho's great moment of heroism.
The Bonfire of the Vanities author, Tom Wolfe, ingeniously dissects the turbulent heart of America's racial vortex in this exhilarating tale of sweltering MiamiAs the police boat speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay, the scene is set for Officer Nestor Camacho's great moment of heroism.