I Am Charlotte Simmons

Our pre-eminent social realist...trains his all-seeing eye on the institution of the American university. . . . Wolfe's rhapsodic prose style finds its perfect target in academia's beer-soaked bacchanals. --Henry Alford, Newsday <br> Wolfe is one of the greatest literary stylists and social observers of our much observed postmodern era. . . . A rich, wise, absorbing, and irresistible novel. --Lev Grossman, Time <br> Tom Wolfe has scored a slam dunk with his...attention to style, the rule-bending punctuation, the deftness of slang dialogue, and that biting satire. --Steve Garbarino, New York Post <br> Wolfe's dialogue is some of the finest in literature, not just fast but deep. He hears the cacophony of our modern lives. --Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times [A] hilarious, exclamation-point filled novel. --John Freeman, Time Out New York Brilliant . . . I couldn't stop reading it. . . . Tom Wolfe can make words dance and sing and perform circus tricks, he can make the reader sigh with pleasure. --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post A lot of fun . . . Hilarious. --Francine Prose, Los Angeles Times Book Review <br> Tom Wolfe remains a peerless satirist. Alone among our fiction writers he is actively writing the human comedy, American-style, on a grand Dickensian scale. --David Lehman, Bloomberg News Scathingly clear-eyed, often very funny take on college life. --Robert Siegel, NPR, All Things Considered <br> Dazzingly vivid . . . Tom Wolfe has served up another of his broadly entertaining novels. --Adam Begley, The New York Observer His most fully realized and hands-down funniest work of fiction. --Patrick Beach, Austin American-Statesman <br> Captivating . . . Sit back and enjoy the ride. --Tom Walker, The Denver Post Tom Wolfe is America's greatest living novelist. --Joseph Bottum, The Weekly Standard Rollicking . . . Just as Americans continue to read A Farewell to Arms or The Great Gatsb y, we'll be reading I Am Charlott