HSPLS site
HSPLS site
 Search 
 My Account 
 Databases 
 HI Newspaper 
 eBooks/Audiobooks 
 Learning 
 PC Reservation 
 Reading Program 
   
BasicAdvancedPowerHistory
Search:    Refine Search  
> You're searching: HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
 
Item Information
 HoldingsHoldings
  Summary
  More Content
 
 
 More by this author
 
  •  
  • Wolfe, Tom.
     
     Subjects
     
  •  
  • Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
     
  •  
  • Miami (Fla.) -- Fiction.
     
     Browse Catalog
      by author:
     
  •  
  •  Wolfe, Tom.
     
      by title:
     
  •  
  •  Back to blood : a no...
     
     
     
     MARC Display
    Back to blood : a novel / Tom Wolfe.
    by Wolfe, Tom.
    View full image
    New York : Little, Brown, and Company, 2012.
    Subjects
  • Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
  •  
  • Miami (Fla.) -- Fiction.
  • ISBN: 
    9780316036313 :
    0316036315
    Description: 
    x, 704 p. ; 25 cm.
    Edition: 
    1st ed.
    Contents: 
    We een Mee-AH-Mee Now [We in Miami now] -- The man on the mast -- The hero's welcome -- The daring weak man -- Magdalena -- The pissing monkey -- Skin -- The mattress -- The Columbus Day Regatta -- South Beach outreach -- The super bowl of the art world -- Ghislaine -- Jujitsu justice -- A la moda Cubana -- Girls with green tails -- The yentas -- Humiliation one -- Humiliation, too -- Na Zdrovia! -- the whore -- The witness -- The knight of Hialeah.
    Requests: 
    0
    Summary: 
    A colorful cast of residents and visitors to Miami go about their daily activities, both legal and illegal. This is a big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by the author of the way we live now. The police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay with officer Nestor Camacho on board. Into the feverous landscape of 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. He introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor of the Miami Herald, both WASPs who went to Yale; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist and his lovely Latina nurse Magdalena by day, loin lock by night (until lately), and his star patient, a porn-addicted billionaire; a status-addled Haitian professor who thinks he's really French and wants his pale-skinned daughter, Ghislaine, to "pass" for white (she is the love of Nestor's life); and her Creole-spouting, black-gang-banger-stylin' little brother; as well as crack dealers in the 'hoods. Then there are the clueless collectors who "See it! Like it! Buy it!", spending tens of millions per minute on de-skilled art at the Miami Art Basel Fair; black drug dealers colliding with Cuban cops; "spectators" at the annual Columbus Day Biscayne Bay Regatta looking only for that night's annual après-race orgy; yenta-heavy ex-New Yorkers at an "Active Adult" condo, and a nest of shady Russians.
    Add to my list 
    Copy/Holding information
    LocationCollectionCall No.Status 
    Aina Haina Public LibraryAdult FictionWolfeChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
    Hilo Public LibraryAdult FictionWolfeChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
    Kailua Public LibraryAdult FictionWolfeChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
    Kaimuki Public LibraryAdult FictionWolfeChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
    Pahoa P/S LibraryAdult FictionWolfeChecked InAdd Copy to MyList


    Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
     Powered by Dynix
    © 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.
    Horizon Information Portal