Summary
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, status, and kegs trump academic achievement every time. As Charlotte encounters Dupont’s elite, she gains …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099479024 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099479028 |
| Author: | Tom Wolfe |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 688 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2005 |
| Weight: | 469g |
| Dimensions: | 40mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Vintage Books |
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Critics Review
A firecracker of a novel… A pyrotechnic delight just as dazzling as The Bonfire of the Vanities
A firecracker of a novel… A pyrotechnic delight just as dazzling as The Bonfire of the Vanities * Sunday Express *
Brilliant… Not just a rollicking comedy of campus misbehaviour but a blistering indictment of contemporary standards * Mail on Sunday *
Exaggerates and deflates the pretensions of America’s future ruling class in hilarious style * The Economist *
These are Wolfe’s most memorable characters and this is his best book yet – David Isaacson * Word Magazine *
Exuberant, lovingly crafted grotesquery * Daily Telegraph *
Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, I Am Charlotte Simmons and Back to Blood. He received the National Book Foundation’s 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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