I Am Charlotte Simmons [Paperback]

"Our pre-eminent social realist...trains his all-seeing eye on the institution of the American university. . . . Wolfe's rhapsodic prose style finds its perfect target in academia's beer-soaked bacchanals."--Henry Alford, "Newsday"
"Wolfe is one of the greatest literary stylists and social observers of our much observed postmodern era. . . . A rich, wise, absorbing, and irresistible novel."--Lev Grossman, "Time"
"Tom Wolfe has scored a slam dunk with his...attention to style, the rule-bending punctuation, the deftness of slang dialogue, and that biting satire."--Steve Garbarino, "New York Post"
"Wolfe's dialogue is some of the finest in literature, not just fast but deep. He hears the cacophony of our modern lives."--Susan Salter Reynolds, "Los Angeles Times"" ""[A] hilarious, exclamation-point filled novel."--John Freeman, "Time Out New York"" ""Brilliant . . . I couldn't stop reading it. . . . Tom Wolfe can make words dance and sing and perform circus tricks, he can make the reader sigh with pleasure."--Michael Dirda, "The Washington Post" "A lot of fun . . . Hilarious."--Francine Prose, "Los Angeles Times Book Review"
"Tom Wolfe remains a peerless satirist. Alone among our fiction writers he is actively writing the human comedy, American-style, on a grand Dickensian scale."--David Lehman, "Bloomberg News" "Scathingly clear-eyed, often very funny take on college life." --Robert Siegel, NPR, "All Things Considered"
"Dazzingly vivid . . . Tom Wolfe has served up another of his broadly entertaining novels."--Adam Begley, "The New York Observer"" ""His most fully realized and hands-down funniest work of fiction."--Patrick Beach, "Austin American-Statesman"
"Captivating . . . Sit back and enjoy the ride."--Tom Walker, "The Denver Post" "Tom Wolfe is America's greatest living novelist."--Joseph Bottum, "The Weekly Standard"" ""Rollicking . . . Just as Americans continue to read "A Farewell to Arms "or "The Great Gatsb"y, we'll be reading "I Am Charlott

Another unputdownable novel from the author of The Bonfire of the Vanities and A Man in Full, both huge bestsellers.

Dupont University - the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition- Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from Sparta, North Carolina, who has come here on a full scholarship. But Charlotte soon learns that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, sex, Cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time. As Charlotte encounters Dupont's elite - her roommate, Beverly, a fleshy, privileged Brahmin in lusty pursuit of lacrosse players; Jojo Johanssen, the only white starting player on Dupont's godlike basketball team; the Young Turk of Saint Ray fraternity, Hoyt Thorpe, whose heady sense of entitlement and social domination is clinched by his accidental brawl with a bodyguard for the governor of California; and Adam Gellin, one of the Millennium Mutants who run the university's 'independent' newspaper and who consider themselves the last bastion of intellectual endeavour on campus - she gains a new, revelatory sense of her own power, that of her difference and of her very innocence. But little does she realize that she will act as a catalyst in all of their lives. (20041021)

Another unputdownable novel from the author of The Bonfire of the Vanities and A Man in Full, both huge bestsellers.

Tom Wolfe is the author of more than a dozen books, among them such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and A Man in Full. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B. A. at Washington and Lee University and a Ph. D. in American studies at Yale. He lives in New York City. (20041021)