Tom Wolfe - Back To Blood

Economist“Rabble-rousing...” The clatter of the book’s pin-balling plot, stylistic tics, stuttering ellipses—and bulk may prove too much for many readers. But Mr Wolfe’s satirical aim at the debauchery and landscape of avarice and arrogance is gleefully accurate...

The Observer“Making mischief out of political correctness...” Though Comacho is a more convincingly human Wolfe creation than most, you are never really persuaded that he is more than an intensively researched, brilliantly expressive caricature among many, another cartoon of wild and whirling interiority...

Guardian“Unusually pure bile...” It's not entirely bad. But between its pandering tackiness, and its polemical grandstanding on behalf of its own supposedly realist aesthetic it leaves you with the feeling that if this is what a novel is, then maybe it really is time to move on...

The Independent“A gaudily bedecked book, but never dull...” CAPITAL LETTERS WITH EXCLAMATION MARKS! are reached for on a regular basis. And then there's the multiple colon, which Wolfe applies as liberally as he does bafflingly. It dazzles so much you might want to read it through dark glasses...

Scotsman“Umissable stuff...” Wolfe returns with a thunderous thwack, fizzing outrageously at the age of 81 with a slipstreamed comet of a novel... Though it revels in exposé, and detail, the book's pictures are larger than life, with zap! pow! dialogue and attitude to match...

New York Times“Filled with contrivance and cartoonish antics...” Its two protagonists attest to Wolfe’s new ability to conjure fully realized people but as always, he excavates the world of the superrich with cackling glee, reduces politicians to caricatures of self-interest and eviscerates everyone else...

The New Yorker“Yards of flapping exaggeration...” Wolfe's content and style haven’t changed much: select a city; presume it to be a site of simmering ethnic civil war, always a headline away from a riot; throw a sensational news story into the fire; watch the various groups immolate themselves...

Publishers Weekly“Tabloid headlines recast as fiction...” Filling his prose with sound effects, foreign phrases, accented English, and slang, Wolfe creates his own Miami sound machine - chaotic, infused with tropical rhythms, and fueled by the American dream. The result is a book louder than it is deep...