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big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now.
As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay-with our hero, officer Nestor Camacho, on board-Tom Wolfe is off and running headlong into the only city in the world where people from a different country with a different language and a different culture have taken over at the ballot box.
This melting pot is full of hard cases who just won't melt, damn it: a Cuban mayor; a black police chief; a hot young reporter and a timid editor of the Miami Herald, both WASPs who went to Yale; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist who keeps his lovely Latina nurse, Magdalena, in his bed and his star patient, a porn-addicted billionaire, on a string; a status-addled Haitian professor who thinks he's really French and wants his pale-skinned daughter to "pass" and his Creole-spouting son to be quiet.
Then there are the clueless collectors who "See it! Like it! Buy it!," spending tens of millions per minute on de-skilled art at Miami Art Basel; black drug dealers colliding with the Cuban cops; Columbus Day Regatta "spectators" who only have eyes for the annual apres-race orgy; and "Active Adult" condos full of yenta-heavy ex-New Yorkers, not to mention a nest of shady Russians.

Biografía del autor

Tom Wolfe, nacido en Richmond (Virginia) en 1931 se reveló en los años 60 como genial reportero y agudísimo cronista. Fue el impulsor y teórico del llamado nuevo periodismo , al que definió como el género literario más vivo de la época. La casi totalidad de su obra ha sido publicada por Anagrama: "La Izquierda Exquisita", "La banda de la casa de la bomba y otras crónicas de la era pop", "Los años del desmadre", "El nuevo periodismo", "Lo que hay que tener", "La palabra pintada", "¿Quién teme al Bauhaus feroz?", "Las Décadas Púrpura", "En nuestro tiempo", "La hoguera de las vanidades" y "Ponche de ácido lisérgico".