I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe
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I Am Charlotte Simmons

Author: Tom Wolfe

Narrator: Dylan Baker

Abridged: 9 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2004


Synopsis

2005 Audie Award FinalistAmerica's "peerless observer" (People) uncovers college life—from jocks to mutants, dormcest to tailgating—plus race, class, sex, and basketballDupont 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 North Carolina, who has come here on full scholarship. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the uppercrust coeds of Dupont, sex, Cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time.As Charlotte encounters Dupont's privileged elite—her roommate, Beverly, a fleshy, 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 Turn 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 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.With his signature eye for detail, Tom Wolfe draws on extensive observation of campuses across the country to immortalize college life in the ‘00s. I Am Charlotte Simmons is the much-anticipated triumph of America's master chronicler.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Jennifer on 2007-07-17 18:40:36

This is one of the most attention-grabbing and interest-holding books I've listened to in a while. Tom Wolfe is now one of my favorites.

AudiobooksNow review by Crystal on 2008-12-13 03:05:03

This is an excellent book that was recommended to me by a friend. This could definitely be easily made into a movie and reads like the perfect movie. College life explained by Tom Wolfe is top notch reading! Definitely recommend to others! I read this in less than a week!