I Am Charlotte Simmons

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Literary
Cover of the book I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Tom Wolfe ISBN: 9780374706111
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: November 9, 2004
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Language: English
Author: Tom Wolfe
ISBN: 9780374706111
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: November 9, 2004
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

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 North Carolina. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the uppercrust coeds of Dupont, sex, Cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time.

As Charlotte encounters 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 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.
With his signature eye for detail, Tom Wolfe draws on extensive observation of campuses across the country to immortalize college life in the '00s. I Am Charlotte Simmons is the much-anticipated triumph of America's master chronicler.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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 North Carolina. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the uppercrust coeds of Dupont, sex, Cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time.

As Charlotte encounters 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 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.
With his signature eye for detail, Tom Wolfe draws on extensive observation of campuses across the country to immortalize college life in the '00s. I Am Charlotte Simmons is the much-anticipated triumph of America's master chronicler.

More books from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Cover of the book Dirt Road Home by Tom Wolfe
Cover of the book Collected Poems by Tom Wolfe
Cover of the book My Two Italies by Tom Wolfe
Cover of the book A House in St John's Wood by Tom Wolfe
Cover of the book A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Tom Wolfe
Cover of the book Ordinarily Well by Tom Wolfe
Cover of the book Rag by Tom Wolfe
Cover of the book The Time of Our Singing by Tom Wolfe
Cover of the book In Praise of Reading and Fiction by Tom Wolfe
Cover of the book The Smile of the Lamb by Tom Wolfe
Cover of the book Sister Revolutions by Tom Wolfe
Cover of the book A Private History of Awe by Tom Wolfe
Cover of the book Scenes from Early Life by Tom Wolfe
Cover of the book Void Star by Tom Wolfe
Cover of the book A Village Life by Tom Wolfe
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy