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 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.

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