by Tom Wolfe · ZETA BOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496546882
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«Soy Charlotte Simmons» is the contemporary fiction novel by Tom Wolfe, published by Zeta Bolsillo in paperback (912 pages, in Spanish).
Charlotte Simmons, a brilliant young woman from a conservative town in North Carolina, arrives on a scholarship at the elite Dupont University. There she discovers that social status, alcohol, drugs and sex weigh more than knowledge. Wolfe portrays with irony fraternities, pampered athletes and class and race tensions.
The original title is «I Am Charlotte Simmons»; the translation is by Carlos Mayor Ortega and Eduardo Iriarte Goñi. 2006 edition, Best Seller Zeta Bolsillo collection.
An option for readers of contemporary fiction and social satire interested in the critique of American university life.
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.
