Ebook: I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel
Author: Tom Wolfe
- Tags: Satire, Humor, Humor & Entertainment, Self-Help & Psychology, Humor, Humor & Entertainment, United States, African American, Asian American, Classics, Anthologies, Drama, Hispanic, Humor, Native American, Poetry, Literature & Fiction, Contemporary, Literature & Fiction, Literary, Literature & Fiction
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: Picador
- Language: English
- epub
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...