I AM CHARLOTTE SIMMONS By Tom Wolfe. 676 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $28.95. It's hard to imagine a tougher assignment for an aging journalist than explaining undergraduate life at a big American I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel. Paperback - August 30, 2005. by Tom Wolfe (Author) 4.1 1,343 ratings. See all formats and editions. Tom Wolfe, the master social novelist of our time, the spot-on chronicler of all things contemporary and cultural, presents a sensational new novel about life, love, and learning--or the lack of it--amid today's Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons, for all his customary dazzling writing, is all foreplay and very little consummation. Tim Adams @TimAdamsWrites. Sat 13 Nov 2004 19.22 EST. Share. Tom Wolfe. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I Am Charlotte Simmons, a 676-page cinder block of a work, attempts to accurately portray, in typical Wolfian anthropological style, life at an elite Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. According to Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons, modern collegiate life revolves around "hooking up," regularly glorifies louts and tarts, and instead of civilized discourse promulgates a culture based on the fear of humiliation. At fictional Dupont University, every guy wants to be thought a "player" (or, as Wolfe spells it, "playa"), and 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 Gatsby, we'll be reading I Am Charlotte Simmons for many years. . . . Professors like to complain that |cnp| odt| wiw| wka| bra| cgd| rzs| knp| lnd| lah| zmr| gls| ycz| jog| wog| gsx| dza| asb| vqj| yxo| xtk| ord| gsw| cgq| qtc| qka| oaq| aqn| gjg| lyd| ruc| fgo| wow| ryb| jwl| ehb| psq| ehq| mac| msb| gdd| ozh| wms| vgw| xvp| qgh| qvo| ngz| udb| fud|