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I Am Charlotte Simmons

I Am Charlotte Simmons

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I Am Charlotte Simmons

by Wolfe, Tom

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ISBN 10
0374281580
ISBN 13
9780374281588
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New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Slightly smoky, top page ridge very faintly foxed. 2004 Hard Cover. 676 pp. 8vo. "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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Bookseller
Yesterday's Muse Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
2281551
Title
I Am Charlotte Simmons
Author
Wolfe, Tom
Format/Binding
Hard Cover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0374281580
ISBN 13
9780374281588
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2004
Size
6x1x9
Keywords
FICTION CONTEMPORARY OLYMPIAN AMERICA AMERICAN YOUTH UNITED STATES COLLEGE COLLEGIATE GOTHIC CHARLOTTE SIMMONS BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS NORTH CAROLINA DUPONT ACADEMIC BEVERLY GROTON BRAHMIN JOJO JOHANSSEN YOUNG TURK SAINT RAY FRATERNITY FRATERNAL HOYT THORPE
X weight
39 oz

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