![]() Its failure as a work of journalistic fiction does not stem solely from its carefully sketched out but nonetheless hopelessly clichéd characters, but also from its moral judgment of these characters as if they are objective examples of contemporary youth. I Am Charlotte Simmons, a 676-page cinder block of a work, attempts to accurately portray, in typical Wolfian anthropological style, life at an elite university. Wolfe became legendary serving up the counterculture and packaging New York City’s economic elite, but his latest effort is arguably his most difficult yet-decoding the profanity-laced wit and sexually charged wisdom of today’s undergraduate youth. ![]() As a cultural arbiter, Tom Wolfe has picked a prickly fight by depicting and assessing his vision of modern college life. ![]()
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