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.

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.

Sherman McCoy finds himself involved in a freak accident involving two black muggers, his Mercedes and his mistress. As a result McCoy learns that prosecutors, politicians and press are lining up to devour him with shameless self-serving relish.

The setting is Atlanta, Georgia, the protagonist is Charles Croker, once a fabled college football star, now a middle-aged entrepreneur-turned-conglomerate king whose outsize ego has at last hit up against reality.

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.

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.

I looked around and people's faces were distorted...lights were flashing everywhere...the screen at the end of the room had three or four different films on it at once, and the strobe light was flashing faster than it had been...the band was playing but I couldn't hear the music...people were dancing...someone came up to me and I shut my eyes and with a machine he projected images on the back of my eye-lids...I sought out a person I trusted and he laughed and told me that the Kool-Aid had been spiked and that I was beginning my first LSD experience...

New Yorku osmdesátých let minulého století. Fiktivní příběh. Jisté dobře známé zavedené instituce, agentury a orgány veřejné správy. Veškeré postavy knihy jsou smyšlené. Sherman McCoy. Ačkoliv osmdesátá léta minulého století, kniha zcela souzní s tématy soudobých zpráv, zároveň se vášnivě dotýká i věčných námětů lidského života, což jí samotné dává věčnou sílu….
Je to novinka, která nikdy nezestárne, protože i ode dneška za sto let v ní čtenáři budou nacházet mocnou působivost některých smutně důležitých životních...