Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from Sparta, North Carolina, is on a full scholarship. She learns that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, sex, Cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time. As Charlotte encounters Dupont's elite, she gains a new, revelatory sense of her own power, that of her difference and of her very innocence.
Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from Sparta, North Carolina, is on a full scholarship. She learns that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, se...
A retrospective collection of Wolfe's work, twenty-one essays and extracts, from 1964 to 1981, running through the whole mad circus of his American subcultures - from Surfers, Acid Freaks, West Side Divorcees and Soho Bohos to Astronauts, Moonies, Manhattan Socialites, Mid-Atlantic Men, Pop Painters and Down-filled People.
A retrospective collection of Wolfe's work, twenty-one essays and extracts, from 1964 to 1981, running through the whole mad circus of his American su...
Ranges from coast to coast, observing the 'lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000' - everything from teenage sexual manners to how genetics and neuroscience are changing the way we regard ourselves.
Ranges from coast to coast, observing the 'lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000' - everything from ...
As the police boat speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay, the scene is set for Officer Nestor Camacho's great moment of heroism. Except that in this feverous melting pot of a city, Nestor's one act of heroism can be seen as an utter betrayal of his Cuban roots.
As the police boat speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay, the scene is set for Officer Nestor Camacho's great moment of heroism. Except that in this feve...
