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I Am Charlotte Simmons is the story of college student Charlotte Simmons's first semester-and-a-half at the prestigious Dupont University. A high school graduate from a poverty-stricken rural town, her intelligence and hard work at school have been rewarded with a full scholarship to Dupont.
Dec 9, 2004 · With his trademark satirical wit and famously sharp eye for telling detail, Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons draws on extensive observations at campuses across the country to immortalize the early-21st-century college-going experience.
The 73-year-old New Journalist turned novelist has provoked so much ire among America’s intelligentsia in part because he’s gone out looking for it. This is the man who told a British...
Nov 28, 2004 · 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...
Nov 9, 2004 · In I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe masterfully chronicles college sports, fraternities, keggers, coeds, and sex--all through the eyes of the titular Simmons, a bright and beautiful freshman at the fictional Dupont University. Listen to an Amazon.com exclusive audio clip of Wolfe talking about his new novel.
Aug 30, 2005 · With his trademark satirical wit and famously sharp eye for telling detail, Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons draws on extensive observations at campuses across the country to immortalize the early-21st-century college-going experience.
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...
