I say esoteric, because in many cases these were areas of life one would not ordinarily think of as social at all. What I never imagined you could do-I couldn’t have done it at your age-was to step back in the most detached way and point out the workings of human nature in general and the esoteric workings of social status in particular. All that was quite in addition to the many times you rescued me when I got in over my head trying to use current slang. The totallys now give off such whiffs of parody, they are fading away, even as I write. Students who load up conversations with likes and totallys, as in like totally awesome, are almost always females. So does jerk, as in Whatta jerk! It has been totally replaced by a quaint anatomical metaphor. So does the word fabulous, as in That’s fabulous! Today the word is awesome. I learned that using the oath Jesus Christ establishes the speaker as, among other things, middle-aged or older. I gave you the manuscript hoping you might vet it for undergraduate vocabulary. So I suppose I shouldn’t be astonished by what you have done for me and this book but I am, and dedicating it to you is a mere whisper of my gratitude. You have been a joy, a surprise, a source of wonderment for me at every stage of your young lives. I Am Charlotte Simmons is the much-anticipated triumph of America's master chronicler. With his signature eye for detail, Tom Wolfe draws on extensive observation of campuses across the country to immortalize college life in the '00s. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the uppercrust coeds of Dupont, sex, Cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time.Īs 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. Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina. Dupont University-the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition.
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