Everything about Back To Blood totally explained
Back to Blood is the planned title for
Tom Wolfe's fourth novel, to be published by
Little, Brown in 2009. The novel, to be set in
Miami, will focus on the subject of immigration.
Background
Wolfe's 1998 novel
A Man in Full, about a real-estate mogul in
Atlanta during that city's economic boom of the 1990s, was a considerable success. An estimated 1.1 million copies of the book were sold in hardcover alone. Wolfe followed
A Man in Full with 2004's
I Am Charlotte Simmons, about a sheltered teenager who arrives at a school with a reputation for both academics and athletics, similar to
Duke University. The book was considered disappointing by many critics, and sales were much lower:
Nielsen BookScan, which covers roughly 70 percent of book sales, placed hardback sales at 293,000 copies and paperback sales at 138,000.
All of Wolfe's essay collections, non-fiction, and fiction had been published by
Farrar, Straus & Giroux since his first book
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby in 1965. But after the relatively disappointing sales of
I Am Charlotte Simmons, Wolfe was unable to agree on terms for the new novel with his publisher of 42 years. An excerpt from the novel was shown to several publishers; Wolfe sold the rights to publish his novel to
Little, Brown for a sum of close to US$7 million, according to the
The New York Times, in an auction that ended shortly before Christmas of 2007. Racial anxieties were a key source of tension in
The Bonfire of the Vanities—
Back to Blood will similarly feature characters of Cuban, Haitian, Russian, and French ancestry in the melting pot of Miami.
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