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

Dupont University - the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition- Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from Sparta, North Carolina, who has come here on a full scholarship. But Charlotte soon learns that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, sex, Cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time. As Charlotte encounters Dupont's elite - her roommate, Beverly, a fleshy, privileged Brahmin in lusty pursuit of lacrosse players; Jojo Johanssen, the only white starting player on Dupont's godlike basketball team; the Young Turk of Saint Ray fraternity, Hoyt Thorpe, whose heady sense of entitlement and social domination is clinched by his accidental brawl with a bodyguard for the governor of California; and Adam Gellin, one of the Millennium Mutants who run the university's 'independent' newspaper and who consider themselves the last bastion of intellectual endeavour on campus - she gains a new, revelatory sense of her own power, that of her difference and of her very innocence. But little does she realize that she will act as a catalyst in all of their lives.

Contemporary

Vintage

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

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Bonfire of the Vanities

Vintage Classics

Back to Blood

Title: Back to Blood Binding: Paperback Author: TomWolfe Publisher: BackBayBooks

Genre Fiction

Back Bay Books

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Classics

Charles Scribner`s Sons

Purple Decades

Essays & Correspondence

Penguin Putnam~trade

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