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I Am Charlotte Simmons
Tom Wolfe
Life on today's college campuses...
Picador
August 2005
752 pages
ISBN: 0312424442
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Fiction
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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