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I Am Charlotte Simmons Tapa blanda – 1 septiembre 2005

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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 sheltered freshman from Sparta, North Carolina, who has come here on a full scholarship. But Charlotte soon learns that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, sex, Cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time. As Charlotte encounters Dupont's elite - her roommate, Beverly, a fleshy, privileged Brahmin in lusty pursuit of lacrosse players; Jojo Johanssen, the only white starting player on Dupont's godlike basketball team; the Young Turk of Saint Ray fraternity, Hoyt Thorpe, whose heady sense of entitlement and social domination is clinched by his accidental brawl with a bodyguard for the governor of California; and Adam Gellin, one of the Millennium Mutants who run the university's 'independent' newspaper and who consider themselves the last bastion of intellectual endeavour on campus - she gains a new, revelatory sense of her own power, that of her difference and of her very innocence. But little does she realize that she will act as a catalyst in all of their lives.
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  1. Longitud de impresión
    784 páginas
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    Inglés
  3. Editorial
    Vintage
  4. Fecha de publicación
    1 septiembre 2005
  5. Dimensiones
    11 x 4.8 x 18 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0099483793
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0099483793
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Tom Wolfe is the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, I Am Charlotte Simmons, and Back to Blood. He received the National Book Foundation's 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in NewYork City.

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  • Editorial ‏ : ‎ Vintage (1 septiembre 2005)
  • Idioma ‏ : ‎ Inglés
  • Tapa blanda ‏ : ‎ 784 páginas
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0099483793
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0099483793
  • Peso del producto ‏ : ‎ 399 g
  • Dimensiones ‏ : ‎ 11 x 4.8 x 18 cm
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Ovidio Perera Moser
5,0 de 5 estrellas I really enjoyed this book
Revisado en España el 26 de octubre de 2022
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It is very well written and structured and it does not disappoint at the end.
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Paul Baker
2,0 de 5 estrellas oh dear
Revisado en España el 31 de mayo de 2016
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Yo estaba muy contento a más novelas de Tom Wolfe despues de "A Man in Full", que me gustó mucho, pero este libro no convence nada. Ni es divertido, ni tragico, ni interesante... los personajes no convencen, especialmente Charlotte. Da la impresión de que TW no entiende las mujeres, y desprecia los hombres, que quizás con una sátira más aguda se puede aceptar, pero en este libro lo único que hace es quitar interés. Sorry.
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Big Daddy
5,0 de 5 estrellas Great seller
Revisado en Reino Unido el 30 de septiembre de 2018
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Great book, great seller. Book as described. I would be happy to purchase again from this seller.
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Bob1551
5,0 de 5 estrellas Sehr lesenswert
Revisado en Alemania el 9 de mayo de 2016
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Wer sich für das amerikanische College-System interessiert und dazu noch eine exzellent geschriebene und tolle Geschichte mag - kaufen. War für mich ein reiner Zufallstreffer (habe über dieses Buch in einem Artikel über das tatsächlich existierende Rhodes-Stipendium gelesen). Der Anfang ist meiner Meinung nach etwas schleppend, da die Charaktere sehr langsam erst vorgestellt werden. Danach wird es aber immer besser.
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julov
5,0 de 5 estrellas Love this book but...........
Revisado en Canadá el 1 de octubre de 2012
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Why do Americans have to go through this horrible class distinction? I loved the book, well-written, exciting, satirical etc. but can't get my head around this university thing in the USA. I went to university in England in the late 60s/early 70s and there was none of this weird class distinction. And people say English people are more class-conscious than Americans!!! Well, well, this is a great book but I despair of American society.
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Op. 133
5,0 de 5 estrellas I WAS (and am) ADAM GELLIN (the dork)!!! Pt. I
Revisado en los Estados Unidos el 4 de septiembre de 2006
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I'm only half-way into this book and already I can tell you that Tom Wolfe tells it like it is! He writes with the energy and panache of an ageless (and authentic) wunderkind. People who decry this book as "unrealistic" are just fooling themselves. Wake up! Take a look in the mirror, people! Tom doesn't shy away from showing you all the sad, petty, twisted and overwhelming obsessions of college life (which, of course, is just the real life shrinked down.) In fact, this book is SO realistically written that it's given me post-traumatic stress syndrome. I'm not kidding! In college (and high school) I was basically the Adam Gellin character - the dork, forced to kowtow to the jocks and always shot down by the hotties. Here's a little passage where Tom NAILS the mindframe of one of the a-hole jockstrap gorillas:

"What did Adam the tutor amount to? He amounted to a male low in the masculine pecking order who is angry, deserves to be angry, is dying to show anger, but doesn't dare do so in the face of two alpha males, both of them physically intimidating as well as famous on the Dupont campus. Jojo had enjoyed this form of unspoken domination ever since he was twelve. It was a source of inexpressible satisfaction."

Thank god somebody's got the guts to tell the TRUTH. Frankly, I think Wolfe is unjustly criticized on the basis of his age; people assume a 70-something author can't capture college kids' mental state. WRONG! Time and again I'm just blown away at how well he does it - the slang, the attitudes, the clothes, etc. The guy was clearly channeling!

And one finally gets a true view into the workings of the female mind - the ostensibly "smart and sweet" Charlotte Simmons is just a sucker when it comes to hot guys; she can't see them for what they really are: a-holes. "Charlotte's pulse was rapid... She was excited...the only girl in a room in a fraternity house with a whole bunch of cool boys." Meanwhile, like in real-life, the poor dork in the form of Adam Gellin (ME) is shunned and shunted. Nerds lose. Frat-boys and jocks win. Like in real-life: Bush is President. While a nerd can't get a job or a girl and winds up spending too much time writing up a review for Amazon. Ha!

Some readers complain the characters are stereotypes. Well, okay, Wolfe does skirt the margins of caricature. On the other hand, there really ARE people like this! If anything, his portrayals are HYPER-realistic. It's like he put a college campus under a microscope, and really ZOOMED in, until all the frightening details scream in your face. After all, what would've been the point of a bland, distant, birds-eye view? No, this is the only way it could've been done, had to be done, for the average, jaded reader to stand up and take notice.

Also, Wolfe gives every character depth and dimension, lifting them above the stereotype category. Even the gorilla jock becomes a REAL PERSON. Often he'll break the narrative flow to launch into a long exposition on how a character became what he or she is. You'd think it'd be boring, but it's actually not. You feel their desires, hopes, fears, everything.

AS FOR STYLE - Tom has enough to spare. I've never read a book by him before, namely because I assumed he'd be boring (most books dubbed as "literary" tend to turn me off), but wow was I wrong! This guy breaks every rule in the book and makes it work! He's like some hybrid of Bret Easton Ellis and Hubert Selby jr (and maybe a dash of Chuck Palahniuk?). He uses plenty of repetition (creating a crazed rhythm), will use all CAPS in dialogue (like Selby for emphasis), will phonetically spell out slang and sounds effects like "Woooooooooooooo!" and "oohooooo....oohoooooo...." and ":::::STATIC:::::" and is no stranger to using ellipses and wild streams-of-consciousness. He's clearly having an exhilarating good time with the English language. This is the book that Bret's "Rules of Attraction" wanted (or should've) been. While Bret is a great stylist as well, his book bogs down under its too-episodic going-nowhere structure and characters that all sound the same. Not here. Wolfe always maintains a "through-line" - things connect, there's a sense the characters are headed for a showdown (psychic or physical). Or to put it another way: THE PROPULSIVE ENERGY OF THIS BOOK COULD POWER ALL THE LIGHTS AND SUBWAYS OF MANHATTAN FOR A YEAR.

The chapter entitled, "The `H' Word" alone is worth the price of the book! It's a laugh out-loud expose' of the weight-rooms and body-conscious culture of America. The men with their "curious, apelike straddle gait." The females on cardio-machines with their rear, sweat-stained "declivities." And poor "unsexed" Adam running around, hoping to bulk up. Read it! Nobody has made you seen it more vividly.

Okay, I could on and on, but I need to stop somewhere. Suffice to say - I would give this book 20 stars if I could! It's one of those rare books that hits a nerve in you, expresses everything inside of you. It's real. It's the truth.

PS - I will post a Pt. II follow-up when I done. Stay tuned! ;)
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Nathou
5,0 de 5 estrellas Une analyse de la société américaine
Revisado en Francia el 10 de mayo de 2010
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Voici un livre où la décadence et son opposé - le puritanisme américain, se côtoient avec beaucoup de pertinence. Charlotte Simmons devient le prisme à travers lequel l'auteur décrit le monde des universités américaines d'une voix neutre, à la limite de la froideur et de l'analyse sociale. On ne compatit pas avec les personnages, mais on les observe, on les décortique et on les étudie... On est très proche de la satire sociale jusqu'aux dernières lignes mêmes du roman. On passe un très bon moment, c'est bien écrit, et la lecture est passionnante. Une belle lecture, un grand (et gros!! 738 pages!) roman de notre époque, une future référence sûrement...
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