Beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons thinks the hallowed halls of Dupont University are all about learning. But she soon discovers, to her mounting dismay, that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, sex, sports and kegs trump academic ambitions.

With his celebrated eye for telling detail, Tom Wolfe immortalizes college life in the 21st century. I Am Charlotte Simmons is the latest triumph of Americas master social novelist.

I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

WOLFE, Tom.

Literary

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons thinks the hallowed hallsof Dupont University are all about learning. But she soon discovers, to hermounting dismay, that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, sex, sports and kegstrump academic ambitions.
With his celebrated eye for telling detail, Tom Wolfeimmortalizes college life in the 21st century. I Am Charlotte Simmons isthe latest triumph of America’s master social novelist.
"[IAm Charlotte Simmons] isso full of news and social commentary andgives rise to so many surprisingand funny set pieces that you wonderwhy someone didn’t think aboutwriting this sooner." - The New YorkTimes Magazine

I Am Charlotte Simmons

Harper-perennial

Comments on the evolution of the New Journalism and presents representative writings by Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and others

The New Journalism

United States

Harper and Row

2004 Paperback. Cover in like new condition. Pages clean, slightly yellowed with age. Spine tight. Book lies flat.

Vintage

Back to Blood

Purple Decades

Essays & Correspondence

Penguin Putnam~trade

The Bonfire of the Vanities

The bonfire of the vanities

Contemporary

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988

Charles Croker, Atlanta real-estate entrepreneur, is having to face the reality of massive debt. Conrad Hensly, idealistic father of two, is fired from his job in the Croker Global Foods warehouse in Oakland. Back in Atlanta, Fareek "The Cannon" Fannon, star running-back, is accused of date rape.

Man In Full

Humor & Satire

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Tom Wolfe's name is now so well known that the cover of his new collection bears just that: Tom Wolfe's name. No title, no picture, just the name, with an elegant design twining through it. Flip the thing on its side and you'll find that its title, Hooking Up, gives little idea of its function. But investigation soon reveals an oleo of reportage, fiction, and acrimonious name-calling. The latter, of course, makes for the best reading. In "My Three Stooges," Wolfe reviles the three big men of American letters--Updike, Mailer, and Irving--who cast aspersions on his second novel. Apparently, "the allergens for jealousy were present. Both Updike and Mailer had books out at the same time as A Man in Full, and theirs had sunk without a bubble. With Irving there was the Dickens factor." Wolfe gets in a lot of figures about what a big hit his book was with the reading public, and a few gentle reminders about other writers who were big hits of their times--little guys like Twain and Tolstoy.

Hooking Up

Skinner reveals how the Roman Catholic Church, through its agency, the National Legion of Decency, dominated the American film censorship scene in tandem with the Production Code Administration. In its heyday in the 1930s and 40s, the Legion claimed a membership of over eleven million Americans--about one moviegoer in twelve--and brought movie moguls such as David O. Selznick and Howard Hughes to their knees in determined campaigns to bar what it deemed unsuitable entertainment. Some of the most controversial titles in the annals of movie censorship, including The Outlaw, Duel in the Sun, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and The Pawnbroker, are featured as targets of clerical wrath in this study which covers four decades of film history.

The Kingdom of Speech

Religion & Spirituality

Back Bay Books

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