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Back to Blood was released on October 23, 2012 [4] to mixed reviews. It debuted at #4 on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Seller list on November 11, 2012 and it remained on the list for three weeks. The book was ultimately deemed a commercial failure, selling only 62,000 copies as of February 2013, according to BookScan. [5]
His fourth novel, Back to Blood, was published in October 2012 by Little, Brown and Company. According to The New York Times , Wolfe was paid close to US$7 million for the book. [ 33 ] According to the publisher, Back to Blood is about "class, family, wealth, race, crime, sex, corruption and ambition in Miami, the city where America's future ...
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Like Zola a century before, Wolfe treated the novel as a kind of social document, a reflection of an age. It would be 11 years before his second novel, A Man in Full , was published.
In “Radical Wolfe,” a lively, impeccably chiseled portrait of Tom Wolfe, who died in 2018 (this is the first documentary about him), we hear how Wolfe came to write that essay.
The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1990 American satirical black comedy film directed and produced by Brian De Palma and starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, and Morgan Freeman. The screenplay, written by Michael Cristofer, was adapted from the bestselling 1987 novel of the same name by Tom Wolfe.
Wolfe intended his novel to capture the essence of New York City in the 1980s. [3]Beneath Wall Street's success, the city was a hotbed of racial and cultural tension. The city was polarized by several high-profile incidents of racism, particularly the murders—in white neighborhoods—of two black men: Willie Turks, who was murdered in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn in 1982, and Michael ...
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