I Am Charlotte Simmons
A New York Times Bestseller Dupont University: the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, with roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns . . . or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a wide-eyed, bookish freshman from a strict, devout, poor, Blue...
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A New York Times Bestseller Dupont University: the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, with roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns . . . or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a wide-eyed, bookish freshman from a strict, devout, poor, Blue Ridge Mountain family. With his celebrated eye for telling detail, Tom Wolfe draws on extensive observation of campuses to immortalize college life in the '00s. Here is the latest triumph of America's master social novelist, our spot-on chronicler of the way we live now.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780786272914 (0786272910)
Publish date: February 1st 2005
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Edition language: English
Execrable. Tom Wolfe has become a grumpy old man worried about coed bathrooms. He's rather bothered by what the kids these days are up to, with their loud music and long hair.
I like to think of Tom Wolfe doing his research at the University of Michigan, bar-crawling in his double-breasted suit. Some reviews give this book a hard time about using stereotyped characters, but I think part of the point of the book is how college students stereotype themselves and put themsel...
Weird story, typical of Wolfe, but I gotta give the old guy an extra star for the research he did among young people to give this story authenticity!
Full disclosure, I was a student at Duke when this book came out (this book takes place at a very thinly veiled version of the school). Everyone was talking about it, and I actually read (tried to read actually) this for a class back in '05.Having said that, I despise this book. This man wouldn't kn...
As overwrought as this book is, it contains exciting glimpses of the modern college experience. Despite the fundementally unappealing portrayl, I felt proud to point out the parts of my "glory days" that I recognized on the page. Perhaps even more poignant were the glimpses of the painful trial by...
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