I Am Charlotte Simmons

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I Am Charlotte Simmons is a satirical novel by Tom Wolfe that follows a naive young woman’s immersion into the hedonistic and status-obsessed culture of an elite American university.

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instanceOf novel
satirical novel
author Tom Wolfe NERFINISHED
authorNationality American
award Bad Sex in Fiction Award NERFINISHED
awardYear 2004
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
followedBy Back to Blood NERFINISHED
genre campus novel
satire
social novel
hasCoverArtist Chip Kidd NERFINISHED
hasFictionalUniversity Dupont University NERFINISHED
hasISBN 9780374270323
language English
literaryMovement contemporary American literature
mainCharacter Charlotte Simmons NERFINISHED
mediaType hardcover
paperback
print
narrativePerspective third-person
notableFor controversial portrayal of sex and language
depiction of elite university social life
originalLanguage English
pageCount ~700
partOfAuthorOeuvre Tom Wolfe novels
placeOfPublication New York City
precededBy A Man in Full NERFINISHED
protagonistAge college freshman
protagonistGender female
publicationDate 2004
publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux NERFINISHED
setting fictional elite American university
subjectMatter American higher education
college basketball
fraternities and sororities
youth culture in America
targetAudience adult readers
theme big-time college athletics
class and privilege
college life
hedonism
identity and self-discovery
intellectualism vs anti-intellectualism
sexual culture on campus
social status
timePeriodOfSetting early 21st century

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Tom Wolfe notableWork I Am Charlotte Simmons