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I Am Charlotte Simmons
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I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004) (edit title/settings)

by Tom Wolfe (Author) (edit contributors)

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Tom Wolfe, the master social novelist of our time, the spot-on chronicler of all things contemporary and cultural, presents a sensational new novel about life, love, and learning--or the lack of it--amid today's American colleges. Our story unfolds at fictional Dupont University: those... read more

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  • Charlotte Simmons: Academically prepared, socially overwhelmed by her university experience.
  • Jojo Johanssen: Basketball player. Bright, but not particularly motivated. This by personal inclination and peer pressure from his team mates.
  • Hoyt Thorpe: A university student at Dupont who sees the school as an opportunity for continuous self serving behaviors.
  • Adam Gellin: Student, journalist and intelligencia wanna be.
  • Beverly: Roommate of Charlotte. Very wealthy and contemptuous.
  • Vance: A young, unworldly scholar from a small community in a remote region of the US enters a posh university on a scholarship. She is thrust into a world of sophistication and snobbery that leaves her feeling like a lonely misfit. She must learn to cope with scholastic as well as cultural challenges.
  • Bettina: Friend of Charlotte and Mimi who ia a driving force for the girls to out on a Friday night.
  • Mimi: Antoher friend of Charlotte's (and Bettina)
  • Greg: Editor of the Dupont student newspaper and member of Millenial Mutants.
  • Laurie: Charlotte's high school friend
  • Mike: Fellow "white-boy" basketball player with JoJo. Called "Mike", short for microwave, because his shooting can get hot in a hurry.
  • Miss Pennington: The English teacher in small-town Sparta, N.C. whose career feels validated by the success of Charlotte.
  • Buster Roth: Basketball coach. Part snot-nosed insecure bully, part Bobby Knight. Redundant? You decide.
  • Charles: Add a description of this character.
  • Momma: Charlotte's simple and morally conservative mother.
  • Harrison: Lacrosse player and Saint Ray.
  • Sam
  • Randy: An openly gay member of the Millenial Mutants.
  • Buster Bowl: The Dupont basketball arena, named after Coach Buster Roth.
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Every time the men's-room door opened, the amped-up onslaught of Swarm, the band banging out the concert in the theater overhead , came crashing in, ricocheting off all the mirrors and ceramic surfaces until it seemed twice as loud.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Prologue: the Dupont Man
1. That Single Promise
2. The Whole Black Player Thing
3. The Mermaid Blushed
4. The Dummy
5. You the Man
6. The Most Ordinary Protocol
Lost Province Entr'acte
7. His Majesty the Baby
8. The View Up Mount Parnassus
9. Socrates
10. Hot Guys
11. Onstage, a Star
12. The H Word
13. The Walk of Shame
14. Millenial Mutants
15. The Tailgaters
16. The Sublime
17. The Conscious Little Rock
18. The Lifeguard
19. The Hand
20. Cool
21. Get What?
22. Shaking Hands with Fortune
23. Model on a Runway
24. To... Us!
25. You Okay?
26. How Was It?
27. In the Dead of the Night
28. The Exquisite Dilemma
29. Stand Up Straight for Gay Day
30. A Different Preposition
31. To Be a Man
32. The Hair from Lenin's Goatee
33. The Soul Without Quotation Marks
34. The Ghost in the Machine

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Tom Wolfe (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Dylan Baker (Narrator)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Country: USA
Publication Date: November 9, 2004
ISBN: 978-0374281588
Page Count: 688

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Reading Level: Adults

Very explicit language and sexual innuendo.

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