![]() ![]() Hoyt Thorpe is the handsome and popular, but cold-hearted, frat boy Adam Gillen is the clever but uncharismatic nerd and "JoJo" Johanssen is a jock whose better nature has been spoiled by his fame as a basketball player. There are three men in Charlotte's orbit, each of whom to her represents a different set of possibilities and problems. Charlotte's ordeal is the mainspring of Tom Wolfe's third novel, a meticulously detailed, brilliantly satirical panorama of American higher education. Far more challenging than the intellectual rigours of her studies is the sexual maelstrom in which she suddenly finds herself. She soon discovers that for a first-year student the campus scene is more primal than cerebral. 'The present moment was much too early in her experience for her to have expressed it in a sentence, but she was enjoying the first stirrings, the first in her entire life, of the power that woman can hold over that creature who is as monomaniacally hormonocentric as the beasts of the field, Man." When Charlotte Simmons, a bright, naive teenager who has lived all her life in a remote town in the mountains of North Carolina, wins a scholarship to a prestigious Ivy League university, she welcomes the opportunity to leave her provincial surroundings and live a life of the mind among some of the world's most celebrated scholars. ![]()
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