Everyone’s a little bit racist in Tom Wolfe’s Back To Blood, a Bonfire Of The Vanities with boats, set in a seething but stereotyped Miami. The mistakes of a rookie cop are meant to bring the city to a boil, but its inhabitants prove just as happy to spar over much more lukewarm fare. Case in point: the uneasy WASP who gives the book its title after a Cuban woman steals his wife’s parking space at a fancy restaurant.
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