I am Charlotte Simmons
by Tom Wolfe
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0099479028
- ISBN 13
- 9780099479024
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Vintage, Australia, 2005. Reprint. Medium Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Medium Trade Paperback. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Vintage, Australia, 2005. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Another unputdownable novel from the author of The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Man in Full, both huge bestsellers America's 'peerless observer [and] fearless satirist' takes on the university - from jocks to mutants, dormcest to tailgating - plus race, class, sex, and basketball. 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 freshman from Sparta, North Carolina (pop. 900), who has come here on full scholarship in full flight from her tobacco-chewing, beer-swilling high school classmates. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that Dupont is closer in spirit to Sodom than to Athens, and that sex, crank, 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; Jayjay 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 Millennium Mutants who run the university's 'independent' newspaper and who consider themselves the last bastion of intellectual endeavour 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. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; General; ISBN: 0099479028. ISBN/EAN: 9780099479024. Inventory No: 10100475.. 9780099479024
Synopsis
Translation of: I am Charlotte Simmons.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10100475
- Title
- I am Charlotte Simmons
- Author
- Tom Wolfe
- Format/Binding
- Medium Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0099479028
- ISBN 13
- 9780099479024
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; I am Charlotte Simmons
- Bookseller catalogs
- General; Fiction;
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