Great news: Tom Wolfe is working on a new novel, "Back to Blood."
One of the original "New Journalists" of the 1960s, the 76-year-old Wolfe is known for such best-selling novels as "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and "A Man in Full," and for such nonfiction classics as "The Right Stuff" and "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test."
"Back to Blood" will be a Bonfire-like tour of Miami, taking on "class, family, wealth, race, crime, sex, corruption, and ambition." Among the characters: a Cuban nurse married to a French sex doctor, a Haitian woman "who passes for Anglo" and "a freshman journalist on the trail of a Russian-mob-comes-to-Miami story."
Publication is scheduled for 2009, according to AP news agency.
The man in the white suit will release the new novel through a new publisher, ending a 40-year run with Farrar, Straus & Giroux and signing with Little, Brown and Co.
