by Tom Wolfe · Farrar Straus & Giroux · tapa dura · ISBN 9780374281588
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«I Am Charlotte Simmons» is Tom Wolfe's literary fiction novel, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux in hardcover (688 pages, in English).
Charlotte Simmons, a brilliant and sheltered freshman, arrives at the elite Dupont University, where sex, popularity, and status weigh more than intellect. Tom Wolfe portrays that elite with irony to explore the loss of innocence, social classes, and the role of education in contemporary United States.
First edition, originally published on November 9, 2004.
For readers of literary fiction and social satire, and for book clubs interested in university life and the American elite.
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.
