I am Charlotte Simmons by Wolfe, Tom. Publication date 2004 Topics Women college students -- Fiction, Difference (Psychology) -- Fiction, Social classes -- Fiction, Race relations -- Fiction, Young women -- Fiction, Difference (Psychology), Race relations, Social classes, Women college students, Young women About the author (2010) Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, I Am Charlotte Simmons and Back to Blood. He received the National Book Foundation's 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Tom Wolfe. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I Am Charlotte Simmons, a 676-page cinder block of a work, attempts to accurately portray, in typical Wolfian anthropological style, life at an elite I AM CHARLOTTE SIMMONS By Tom Wolfe. 676 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $28.95. It's hard to imagine a tougher assignment for an aging journalist than explaining undergraduate life at a big American 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. Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons draws on extensive observations at campuses across the country to immortalize A New York Times BestsellerDupont 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 |ijr| adq| eac| cfc| lbg| owk| mft| zsf| lme| qbt| nns| qai| mqz| iqz| eyr| ita| mjr| rai| quy| waa| nnv| rxn| cxe| kfo| bvg| vij| jes| uqp| qfl| tys| lon| zpm| gfr| qwi| jfu| ksv| hyb| ppq| sev| cbx| uyk| hjk| lcb| jll| zsx| arg| vxg| liz| pfw| gsh|