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I Am Charlotte Simmons (Paperback, 1st Picador ed)
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I Am Charlotte Simmons (Paperback, 1st Picador ed)
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Tom Wolfe, the master social novelist of our time, the spot-on
chronicler of all things contemporary and cultural, presents a
sensational new novel about life, love, and learning--or the lack
of it--amid today's American colleges.
Our story unfolds at fictional Dupont University: those Olympian
halls of scholarship 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 North Carolina. But Charlotte soon learns,
to her mounting dismay, that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont,
sex, cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time.
As Charlotte encounters the paragons of Dupont's privileged
elite--her roommate, Beverly, a Groton-educated Brahmin in lusty
pursuit of lacrosse players; Jojo Johanssen, the only white
starting player on Dupont's godlike basketball team, whose position
is threatened by a hotshot black freshman from the projects; 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
Geller, one of the Millennial Mutants who run the university's
"independent" newspaper and who consider themselves the last
bastion of intellectual endeavor on the sex-crazed, jock-obsessed
campus--she is seduced by the heady glamour of acceptance,
betraying both her values and upbringing before she grasps the
power of being different--and the exotic allure of her own
innocence.
With his trademark satirical wit and famously sharp eye for telling
detail, Wolfe draws on extensive observations at campuses across
the country to immortalize the early-21st-century college-going
experience.
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Imprint: |
Picador USA
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 2005 |
First published: |
August 2005 |
Authors: |
Tom Wolfe
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Dimensions: |
208 x 141 x 32mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
738 |
Edition: |
1st Picador ed |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-312-42444-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-312-42444-2 |
Barcode: |
9780312424442 |
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