I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel
by Wolfe, Tom
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374281580
- ISBN 13
- 9780374281588
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About This Item
US: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. A crisp clean first edition (as stated) no markings throughout: Dupont University--the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of Amer ica's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tr adition . . . 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 ke gs 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 Johanss en, the only white starting player on Dupont's godlike basketball team, who se position is threatened by a hotshot black freshman from the projects; th e Young Turk of Saint Ray fraternity, Hoyt Thorpe, whose heady sense of ent itlement and social domination is clinched by his accidental brawl with a b odyguard for the governor of California; and Adam Geller, one of the Millen nial Mutants who run the university's "independent" newspaper and who consi der 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 reali ze 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.
Synopsis
Translation of: I am Charlotte Simmons.
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- Bookseller
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000022761
- Title
- I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel
- Author
- Wolfe, Tom
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine/Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374281580
- ISBN 13
- 9780374281588
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 2004
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