I Am Charlotte Simmons. First Printing. Inscribed by the Author

Wolfe, Tom

ISBN 10: 0374281580 / ISBN 13: 9780374281588

Published by New York. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2004

About this Item

New York. Farrar Straus & Giroux. 2004. Hard Cover. First Edition/First Printing (full number line including 1 to copyright page). Medium 8vo. 6.5 x 9.3 . ([16.5cm x 23.5cm] approx. 670 pp! Quarter bound beige cloth over cream boards. Gilt titles to the spine and blind stamped initials of author to the upper board. Royal purple endpapers. Faint trace of wear at the spine ends; hardly discernible. Text block is pristine. Corners sharp and binding tight. double width title page and inscribed by the author in a flourishing hand to the recto. Faint wear to the dust jacket but again minimal. book and jacket are very near fine. Charlotte Simmons is a sheltered freshman from North Carolina. At Dupont University, she soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the upper crust co-eds of Dupont, sex, cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time. With his signature eye for detail, Tom Wolfe draws on extensive observation of campuses across the country to immortalize college life in the '00s. The dust jacket will be protected with a new inert archival quality acetate sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional photographs. Postage price quoted outside the UK is for a book up to 1kg using UPS. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg which are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.45). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: I Am Charlotte Simmons. First Printing. Inscribed by the Author
• Publisher: New York. Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374281580
• ISBN 13: 9780374281588
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • fiction, America, signed, first

About this title

Synopsis

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 North Carolina. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the uppercrust coeds of Dupont, sex, Cool, 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; 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 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.
With his signature eye for detail, Tom Wolfe draws on extensive observation of campuses across the country to immortalize college life in the '00s. I Am Charlotte Simmons is the much-anticipated triumph of America's master chronicler.

About the Author

Tom Wolfe is one of the founders of the new journalism movement and author of such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and A Man in Full. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.A. at Washington and Lee University and a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale. He lives in New York City.