I Am Charlotte Simmons - Couverture souple

Wolfe, Tom

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1250352649 ISBN 13 : 9781250352644

Editeur : Picador USA, 2025

Synopsis

Tom Wolfe sets his sights on the American college campus in this repackaged and reissued classic with a new cover from Seymour Chwast and an introduction from Merve Emre.

Charlotte Simmons arrives in the storied halls of Dupont University a brilliant, beautiful, but benighted outsider from North Carolina, struck by the eminence of its reputation, its august towers, and most of all the dizzying and seductive social hierarchies of this strange new world.

Tom Wolfe made--and then broke--the mold with this gimlet-eyed portrait of the elite American college campus as a riotous testing ground for young ambition, fledgling politics, and wars over questions around gender, power, society, and much more. As Charlotte navigates the traps and pitfalls of life on Dupont, the reader is led through a skewering and revelatory exploration of where the upper crust cut their teeth and the nation's battling agendas first learn to do war.

The now-infamous cast of characters of this high-stakes sentimental education include Beverly, Charlotte's lacrosse-player-chasing roommate; Jojo Johanssen, the only white starting player on Dupont's revered basketball team, whose eminence is threatened by a brilliant Black freshman; Hoyt Thomas, the ambitious Young Turk of Saint Ray fraternity, whose skyward social trajectory gets a powder keg boost when he inadvertently gets into a 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 see themselves as a beacon of sanity and balance on Dupont's sex-crazed, jock-obsessed campus. We follow as Charlotte's ingenuousness and outsider's naivete transform into a heady awareness of the intoxicating allure of her own innocence.

With his legendary wit, high-octane prose, and relentless eye for telling detail, Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons created a portrait of American college life at the dawn of the young century that still vibrates with life and relevance.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of contemporary classics like The Right Stuff and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. As a reporter, he wrote articles for The Washington Post, the New York Herald Tribune, Esquire, and New York Magazine, and is credited with coining the term, "The Me Decade." Among his many honors, Tom was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lived in New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador USA
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1250352649
• ISBN 13: 9781250352644
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 768
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Picador; https://www.panmacmillan.com/picador; ; Units 1 & 2 Chater Court; Market Deeping; Lincs; PE6 8AH; Royaume-Uni
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