I Am Charlotte Simmons - Softcover

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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 Gatsby, we'll be reading I Am Charlotte Simmons for many years. . . . Professors like to complain that they get a year older every fall, while students always remain the same. Add I Am Charlotte Simmons to that magic circle of campus phenomena unlikely to age." --Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer