But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, sex, cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time. Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina. Our story unfolds at fictional Dupont University: those Olympian halls of scholarship housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition. "Tom Wolfe, the master social novelist of our time, the spot-on chronicler of all things contemporary and cultural, presents a sensational new novel about life, love, and learning - or the lack of it - amid today's American colleges. New York: Picador / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
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