Audio Book Description:
Dupont University - the olympian halls of learning houseing the cream of America`s youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused withtradition... Or so it appears to beaut- iful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a wide-eyed, bookish her mounting dismay, that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupontsex, cook and kegs trump her towering academic ambitions every time. As Charlotte encounters the paragonsof Dupont`s privileged elite - herGroton-educated roommate, Beverly; Jojo Johanssen, the only white starting player on Dupont`s godlike basketball team; the Young Kurk of Saint Rayfraternity, Hoyt Thorpe; and Adam Gellinone of the Millennial Mutants who run the university`s "independent" newspaper - she is seduced by the heady glamourof acceptance, betraying her values and upbringing before she grasps the power of being different and the exotic allureof her innocence. With the celebrated eye fortelling detail, Tom Wolfe drawson extensive observation of campuses across the countryto immortalize college life inthe `00s. I Am Charlotte Simmons is the latest triumph of America`s master social novelist, our spot-on chronicler of the way we life now.
