Wolfe takes on the momentous subject of college life (college life? Yes, college life!), and in the course of a very long 676 pages serves up the revelation - yikes! - that students crave sex and beer, love to party, wear casual clothes and use four-letter words. Nor does he lasso the sights and sounds and language - the ineluctable feel of a decade - as he did in those earlier books. He does not tackle big-city racial politics, big-business financial shenanigans or big-time criminal justice as he did in his first two novels, "The Bonfire of the Vanities" (1987) and "A Man in Full" (1998). In his flat-footed new novel, "I Am Charlotte Simmons," Mr.
In a famous and much contested 1989 literary manifesto, Tom Wolfe called upon novelists to head "out into this wild, bizarre, unpredictable, hog-stomping Baroque country of ours and reclaim it as literary property." He exhorted "a battalion, a brigade, of Zolas" to take fiction writing back from the navel-gazers and post-modernists and to re-embrace the realist tradition - to tackle, pinion and hog-tie the great American zeitgeist, to document what he once called the "irresistibly lurid carnival of American life." I Am Charlotte Simmons By Tom Wolfe 676 pages.
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