{"product_id":"0374281580","title":"I Am Charlotte Simmons","description":"\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ewith His Trademark Satirical Wit And Famously Sharp Eye For Telling Detail, Wolfe Draws On Extensive Observations At Campuses Across The Country To Immortalize The Early-21st-century College-going Experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\nthe Washington Post - Michael Dirda\n\u003cp\u003eso: Sermon, Melodrama, Dystopian Vision -- \u003ci\u003ei Am Charlotte Simmons\u003c\/i\u003e Partakes Of All These, And Does So Stunningly. But It's Still As Much Polemic As Novel. One Closes The Book Feeling Soiled By Its Cloacal Vision And Emotionally Manipulated By Its Author. Rhetoric -- The Art Of Persuasion -- Lies At The Heart Of All Writing, But We Dislike Feeling Too Overtly Manipulated, And Works That Blatantly Force Our Emotions Along Precise Paths We Dub Inartistic, Mere Propaganda Or Programmatic Writing With A Social Or Political Agenda. \u003ci\u003ei Am Charlotte Simmons\u003c\/i\u003e Is Such A Work. I Couldn't Stop Reading It -- Who Could? This Is Tom Wolfe, After All -- But That Didn't Prevent Me From Regarding The Author's Premise, Characters And Views As Hardly More Than An Ill-tempered, Mrs. Grundy-like Rant Against Reckless Youth And This Immoral Modern Age. Tom Wolfe Can Make Words Dance And Sing And Perform Circus Tricks, He Can Make The Reader Sigh With Pleasure Before His Arias Of Coloratura Description, He Can Do Just About Anything In These Pages With Words, Including Exaggerate, Distort And Rant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eBook details\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Wolfe, Tom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e hardcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e First Edition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 676\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780374281588\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Used - Very Good","offer_id":49288225783998,"sku":"0374281580-3","price":10.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/813uo5aMuHL.jpg?v=1792007529","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0374281580","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}