6/10/2023 0 Comments I am charlotte simmons![]() With I Am Charlotte Simmons, Wolfe wants to believe that the masters of the universe of the new millennium are still at college.Īt his fictional Dupont University in Pennsylvania, he has some fun, in this regard, with the campus gods of the basketball team: bankrolled through school by drooling sportswear marketeers cosseted with dumbed-down degree courses - their French syllabus, entirely in English, is nicknamed 'Frere Jocko', - and so on. ![]() For A Man in Full, he divined that the emergent power elites in 1990s America were to be found among the racially divided billionaires of Atlanta. The Bonfire of the Vanities put a match under the pretensions of cash-gorged Wall Street in the 1980s. Rarely shy of hubris, Wolfe has always wanted to define decades. ![]()
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