- Race relations, Bildungsromans, Social classes, Difference (Psychology)
"Dupont University - the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition... Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a wide-eyed, bookish freshman from a strict, devout, poor and poorly educated family in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
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Contemporary, classical in form, character-led and prestige.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Tom Wolfe, Bernard Cohen, Joan Solé
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 760
- Publisher
- Vintage, Robert Laffont, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- Russian, German, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9785367001860
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Tom Wolfe was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. He was educated at Washington and Lee (B.A., 1951) and Yale (Ph.D., American Studies, 1957) universities. In December 1956, he took a job as a reporter on the Springfield (Massachusetts) Union. This was the beginning of a ten-year newspaper career, most of it spent as a general assignment reporter. For six months in 1960 he served as The Washington Post's Latin American correspondent and won the Washington Newspaper Guild's foreign news prize for his coverage of Cuba. In 1962 he became a reporter for the New York Herald-Tribune and, in addition, one of the two staff writers (Jimmy Breslin was the other) of New York magazine, which began as
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