Wolfe, Tom — I Am Charlotte Simmons

New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A big, fat, sprawling, surprisingly satisfying novel from an acknowledged master. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, clean but for unobtrusive ink-stamp at dark, first free endpaper, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn; faint remains of a price stick at spine bottom. The protagonist Charlotte Simmons is beautiful, brilliant, poor and out of her league at an upper-crust, top university filled with trust-fund kids. She learns quickly about sex drugs and rock-'n-roll and that money crushes academic ambitions every time. 676 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Near Fine,