Charlene C. (mccoffield) reviewed I Am Charlotte Simmons (Audio Cassette) (Abridged) on + 76 more book reviews
AUDIO BOOK ON TAPE
Abridged, a full 10hours on 6 cassettes
Read by Dylan Baker
Includes a bonus interview with the author.
From the back cover:
"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 wide-eyed, bookish freshman from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. But Charlotte soon leans, to her mounting dismay, that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, sex, 'cool', and kegs trump her towering academic ambitions every time."
"As Charlotte encounters the paragons of Dupont's priviledged elite - her Groton-educated roommate, Bevery; Jojo Johanssen, the only white starting player on Dupont's godlike basketball team; the Young Turk of Saint Ray fraternity, Hoyt Thorpe; and Adam Gellin, one of the Millennial Mutants who run the university's "independent" newspaper - she is seduced by the heady glamour of acceptance, betraying her values and upbringing before she grasps the power of being different and the exotic allure of her innocence."
"With his celebrated eye for telling 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 latest triumph of America's master social novelist, our spot-on chronicler of the way we live now."
Abridged, a full 10hours on 6 cassettes
Read by Dylan Baker
Includes a bonus interview with the author.
From the back cover:
"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 wide-eyed, bookish freshman from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. But Charlotte soon leans, to her mounting dismay, that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, sex, 'cool', and kegs trump her towering academic ambitions every time."
"As Charlotte encounters the paragons of Dupont's priviledged elite - her Groton-educated roommate, Bevery; Jojo Johanssen, the only white starting player on Dupont's godlike basketball team; the Young Turk of Saint Ray fraternity, Hoyt Thorpe; and Adam Gellin, one of the Millennial Mutants who run the university's "independent" newspaper - she is seduced by the heady glamour of acceptance, betraying her values and upbringing before she grasps the power of being different and the exotic allure of her innocence."
"With his celebrated eye for telling 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 latest triumph of America's master social novelist, our spot-on chronicler of the way we live now."
