Back to Blood

Class, family, wealth and corruption are all themes in this examination of life in Miami.

Sunday Business Post

Energetically set against the deco licentiousness of Florida’s steamiest party capital.

Vogue

He is, still, at his best in the thick of a crowd, a master of group dynamics, at once in breathless close-up and sudden wide-angle.

Tom Adams, Observer

Mr Wolfe’s satirical aim at the debauchery and landscape of avarice and arrogance is gleefully accurate.

The Economist

Back to Blood, a remarkable feat for a writer now 81, gives Miami the full Tom Wolfe treatment... Nobody else writes like this and it is still an astonishingly extravagant performance.

David Sexton, Evening Standard

Energising, fascinating – and utterly exhausting.

Tim Walker, Independent

Tom Wolfe...remains The Dude when it comes to surveying the crazed, bracing absurdities of our national life… Back to Blood is marked by both Wolfe’s stylistic freneticim and his formidable reportorial gifts… Beginning his ninth decade, Tom Wolfe has brio to burn.

Douglas Kennedy, The Times

If this novel were rushed into A&E, it would immediately be put under heavy sedation.

Peter Kemp, Sunday Times

Back to Blood dazzles so much that you might want to read it through dark glasses

Simon O’Hagan, Independent on Sunday

As broad and panoramic as ever.

Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

Tom Wolfe returns with a thunderous thwack, fizzing outrageously with a slipstreamed comet of a novel… It’s even better than his great hit The Bonfire of the Vanities. Unmissable stuff

Tom Adair, Scotsman

There are some dazzling satirical riffs and politically incorrect laughs.

Jake Kerridge, Sunday Express

Exhilarating… The satire is scalpel-like and very funny.

Wynn Wheldon, Spectator

What really drives all this is Wolfe’s extraordinary style.

Robert Murphy, Metro

Wolfe’s prose is as punchy as ever.

Time Out

There is more dynamism, risk-taking and crazed energy in Wolfe’s writing than in all the Brit novels I’ve read this year.

Rose Tremain, Guardian

[A] huge, very loud [new novel], MOSTLY IN CAPITALS, from Tom Wolfe, Back to Blood.

Justine Jordan, Guardian

For Christmas, I will give to dinner party conversationalists:... Tom Wolfe’s Back to Blood.

Fay Weldon, Daily Telegraph

[Tells] us about the way we live now... enjoyable.

Wynn Wheldon, Spectator

Classic Wolfe. A delight

William Leith, Evening Standard

Epic, hectic, satirical… It’s scathing, funny, and has great set-piece scenes

Brandon Robshaw, Independent on Sunday

Contemporary Miami gets the Wolfe treatment in a grand, sweeping satire on race, class, lust and immigration

Sunday Telegraph