"Our pre-eminent social realist.trains his all-seeing eye on the institution of the American university. Wolfe's rhapsodic prose style finds its perfect target in academia's beer-soaked bacchanals." -- Henry Alford, Newsday "Wolfe is one of the greatest literary stylists and social observers of our much observed postmodern era. A rich, wise, absorbing, and irresistible novel." -- Lev Grossman, Time "Tom Wolfe has scored a slam dunk with his.attention to style, the rule-bending punctuation, the deftness of slang dialogue, and that biting satire." -- Steve Garbarino, New York Post "Wolfe's dialogue is some of the finest in literature, not just fast but deep.
He hears the cacophony of our modern lives." -- Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times "[A] hilarious, exclamation-point filled novel." -- John Freeman, Time Out New York "Brilliant . I couldn't stop reading it. Tom Wolfe can make words dance and sing and perform circus tricks, he can make the reader sigh with pleasure." -- Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "A lot of fun . Hilarious." -- Francine Prose, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Tom Wolfe remains a peerless satirist.
Alone among our fiction writers he is actively writing the human comedy, American-style, on a grand Dickensian scale." -- David Lehman, Bloomberg News "Scathingly clear-eyed, often very funny take on college life." -- Robert Siegel, NPR, All Things Considered "Dazzingly vivid . Tom Wolfe has served up another of his broadly entertaining novels." -- Adam Begley, The New York Observer "His most fully realized and hands-down funniest work of fiction." -- Patrick Beach, Austin American-Statesman "Captivating . Sit back and enjoy the ride." -- Tom Walker, The Denver Post "Tom Wolfe is America's greatest living novelist.
" -- Joseph Bottum, The Weekly Standard "Rollicking . Just as Americans continue to read A Farewell to Arms or The Great Gatsb y, we'll be reading I Am Charlotte Simmons for many years. Professors like to complain that they get a year older every fall, while students always remain the same. Add I Am Charlotte Simmons to that magic circle of campus phenomena unlikely to age." -- Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer.