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Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe — WisdomDeck honest review
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Back to Blood

by Tom Wolfe

Miami's tribes, Cuban, Haitian, Russian, Anglo, collide around a cop, a reporter and an art fraud. Wolfe's last big novel.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Tribes persist.
  2. Status shifts.
  3. Cities are collisions.

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Wolfe's Miami.

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