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Oh, Ineffable Dirty Old Man! Tom Wolfe Is Back in 'Back to Blood'

This astonishing lump of pulp about contemporary Miami, modern art and sex, sex, sex, sex and more sex is luridly entertaining and "uuuunnnngohohohonOGHOHHHH!" (that's an actual quote from the book).

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I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe

While she is certainly as self-possessed as the title claims, she does not move through the novel as an active agent, but instead merely reacts to the madness at Dupont.

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