{"product_id":"i-am-charlotte-simmons-paperback-1","title":"I Am Charlotte Simmons - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTom Wolfe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMerve Emre\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Wolfe sets his sights on the American college campus in this repackaged and reissued classic with a new cover from Seymour Chwast and an introduction from Merve Emre.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharlotte Simmons arrives in the storied halls of Dupont University a brilliant, beautiful, but benighted outsider from North Carolina, struck by the eminence of its reputation, its august towers, and most of all the dizzying and seductive social hierarchies of this strange new world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTom Wolfe made--and then broke--the mold with this gimlet-eyed portrait of the elite American college campus as a riotous testing ground for young ambition, fledgling politics, and wars over questions around gender, power, society, and much more. As Charlotte navigates the traps and pitfalls of life on Dupont, the reader is led through a skewering and revelatory exploration of where the upper crust cut their teeth and the nation's battling agendas first learn to do war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe now-infamous cast of characters of this high-stakes sentimental education include Beverly, Charlotte's lacrosse-player-chasing roommate; Jojo Johanssen, the only white starting player on Dupont's revered basketball team, whose eminence is threatened by a brilliant Black freshman; Hoyt Thomas, the ambitious Young Turk of Saint Ray fraternity, whose skyward social trajectory gets a powder keg boost when he inadvertently gets into a 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 see themselves as a beacon of sanity and balance on Dupont's sex-crazed, jock-obsessed campus. We follow as Charlotte's ingenuousness and outsider's naivete transform into a heady awareness of the intoxicating allure of her own innocence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith his legendary wit, high-octane prose, and relentless eye for telling detail, Wolfe's\u003ci\u003e I Am Charlotte Simmons\u003c\/i\u003e created a portrait of American college life at the dawn of the young century that still vibrates with life and relevance.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Wolfe\u003c\/b\u003e (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of more than a dozen books, including such contemporary classics as \u003ci\u003eThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Right Stuff\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRadical Chic \u0026amp; Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Bonfire of the Vanities\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e A Man in Full\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eI Am Charlotte Simmons\u003c\/i\u003e. He is credited with coining the term \"the Me Decade.\" Among his many honors, he was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Prize, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lived in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 768\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 13, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53387421548851,"sku":"9781250352644","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/hzy7pphj7W9781250352644.webp?v=1779440125","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/i-am-charlotte-simmons-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}