by Tom Wolfe · Jonathan Cape Ltd · tapa dura · ISBN 9780224074865
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«I Am Charlotte Simmons» is the contemporary fiction novel by Tom Wolfe, published by Jonathan Cape Ltd in hardcover (676 pages, in English).
Charlotte Simmons, a brilliant young woman from a small town in North Carolina, arrives on scholarship at the elite Dupont University. She discovers that there sex, parties and status matter more than study. Between fraternities, basketball and the campus press, her difference and innocence turn her into a catalyst for those around her.
Published on November 11, 2004, with original text in English.
For readers of contemporary fiction and campus novels, and for those seeking a social satire of the American university world.
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques. Much of Wolfe's work is satirical and centers on the counterculture of the 1960s and issues related to class, social status, and the lifestyles of the economic and intellectual elites of New York City.
