{"product_id":"i-am-charlotte-simmons-cd-9781593975197","title":"I Am Charlotte Simmons","description":"\u003cp\u003eTom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur story unfolds at fictional Dupont University: those Olympian halls of scholarship 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 upper-crust coeds of Dupont, sex, cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Charlotte encounters the paragons of Dupont's privileged elite--her roommate, Beverly, a 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 is seduced by the heady glamour of acceptance, betraying both her values and upbringing before she grasps the power of being different--and the exotic allure of her own innocence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith his trademark satirical wit and famously sharp eye for telling detail, Wolfe's \u003ci\u003eI Am Charlotte Simmons \u003c\/i\u003edraws on extensive observations at campuses across the country to immortalize the early-21st-century college-going experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50384481026321,"sku":"CIN1593975198VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1593975198.jpg?v=1750799274","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/products\/i-am-charlotte-simmons-buch-tom-wolfe-9781593975197","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}