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|title=Back to Blood
|author=Tom Wolfe
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=He may now be 81, but there are no signs that Tom Wolfe is mellowing. Is his latest ''Back to Blood'' another magnificent addition to the Wolfe hall or is he merely bringing up the bodies? Well for me, it's a little of both. The book's great strength and also its main weakness are in the similarities between this Miami-set story of racial and cultural tension and his New York-set classic [[The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe|The Bonfire of the Vanities]]. There are familiar themes: newspapers, racial tension, the super-rich behaving disgracefully and lost in their own ego-mania, and a lively writing style shot through with angry humour, all of which bring to mind ''The Bonfire of the Vanities''. As there, he takes several characters from different worlds whose lives intersect in unexpected ways. But while taking those ingredients might seem a very welcome thing, the end result suffers in comparison.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578530</amazonuk>
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|summary=Eleanor just can't see the point of eyebrows. They don't ''do'' anything. They just sit there, ''two silly, scruffy, hairy, little bits of fluff!'' Sadly for Eleanor, her eyebrows overhear her describing them in this way, and they refuse to stay where they aren't wanted and so pack their bags and set off into the big world to find a place where someone will love them!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857078410</amazonuk>
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