With his signature eye for detail, the "New York Times" bestselling atuhor draws on extensive observation of campuses across the country to immortalize college life in the '00s.
A scandalous exploration of elite undergraduate life from the author ofThe Bonfire of the Vanities
Dupont University: the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition... or so it appear...
Beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons thinks the hallowed hallsof Dupont University are all about learning. But she soon discovers, to hermounting dismay, that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, sex, sports and kegstrump academic ambitions.
America's "peerless observer" ("People") uncovers college life in his much-anticipated new work. Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina, learns that for the uppercrust coeds at Dupont University, sex, cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time. Unabridged. 20 CDs.