{"product_id":"i-am-charlotte-simmons-9780312424442","title":"I Am Charlotte Simmons","description":"\u003cp\u003eTom 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 American colleges. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOur story unfolds at fictional Dupont University: those Olympian halls of scholarship 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 North Carolina. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, sex, cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Charlotte encounters the paragons of Dupont's privileged elite--her roommate, Beverly, a Groton-educated Brahmin in lusty pursuit of lacrosse players; Jojo Johanssen, the only white starting player on Dupont's godlike basketball team, whose position is threatened by a hotshot black freshman from the projects; 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 Geller, one of the Millennial Mutants who run the university's independent newspaper and who consider themselves the last bastion of intellectual endeavor on the sex-crazed, jock-obsessed campus--she is seduced by the heady glamour of acceptance, betraying both her values and upbringing before she grasps the power of being different--and the exotic allure of her own innocence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith his trademark satirical wit and famously sharp eye for telling detail, Wolfe's \u003ci\u003eI Am Charlotte Simmons \u003c\/i\u003edraws on extensive observations at campuses across the country to immortalize the early-21st-century college-going experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/30\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312424442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 738\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eIngram Advance\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2005 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/25\/2005 pg. 36\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tom Wolfe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36635876262044,"sku":"9780312424442","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_faa557f8-8384-451a-8a03-9efc4d28044d.jpg?v=1603840767","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/i-am-charlotte-simmons-9780312424442","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}