I Am Charlotte Simmons

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Dupont University, the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and ma... (more)

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, who has come here on full scholarship. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the uppercrust coeds of Dupont, sex, cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time. 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. (less)