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Summary Famous American writer Tom Wolfe has started working on his new novel.
Like a prize-winning reporter, fame follows Tom Wolfe, even when he swaps the white suit for a blue blazer, even when he visits some strip club in Miami as research yes, research for his new novel.Wolfe is a National Book Award winner, a best-seller and a mixed bag. He is a giant among nonfiction writers, but the rap on him as a novelist is that he thinks wide and not deep.The New Yorkers James Wood disparaged the new novels yards of flapping exaggeration. The New York Times Michiko Kakutani thought the story filled with heaps of contrivance and cartoonish antics, while praising Wolfes new and improved ability to conjure fully realized people.His latest scoops appear in Back to Blood, his first novel in eight years. Its another big city tale in the tradition of Bonfire, his gleeful panorama of 1980s New York. Back to Blood features Wolfes usual cocktail of sex, class and color, from a Cuban-American policeman to a WASP newspaper editor to a Russian oligarch.
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