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“Wolfe is one of the
greatest literary stylists and social observers of our much observed postmodern
era…A rich, wise, absorbing, and irresistible novel.”
— Time
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“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.”
— Newsday
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“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.”
— Washington Post
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“Wolfe’s dialogue is
some of the finest in literature, not just fast but deep. He hears the
cacophony of our modern lives.”
— Los Angeles Times
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“Dazzingly vivid…Tom
Wolfe has served up another of his broadly entertaining novels.”
— New York Observer
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“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.”
— Bloomberg News
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“Scathingly
clear-eyed, often very funny take on college life.”
— NPR
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“His most fully
realized and hands-down funniest work of fiction.”
— Austin American-Statesman
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“Captivating…Sit back
and enjoy the ride.”
— Denver Post
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“Rollicking…Just as
Americans continue to read A Farewell to
Arms or The Great Gatsby, 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.”
— Philadelphia Inquirer
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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[A] hilarious, exclamation-point filled novel.
— John Freeman, Time Out New York
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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
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A lot of fun . . . Hilarious.
— Francine Prose, Los Angeles Times Book Review
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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
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Scathingly clear-eyed, often very funny take on college life.
— Robert Siegel, NPR, All Things Considered
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Dazzingly vivid . . . Tom Wolfe has served up another of his broadly entertaining novels.
— Adam Begley, The New York Observer
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His most fully realized and hands-down funniest work of fiction.
— Patrick Beach, Austin American-Statesman
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Captivating . . . Sit back and enjoy the ride.
— Tom Walker, The Denver Post
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Tom Wolfe is America's greatest living novelist.
— Joseph Bottum, The Weekly Standard
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Rollicking . . . Just as Americans continue to read A Farewell to Arms or The Great Gatsby, 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
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Wolfe leaves no head unbashed . . . His eye and ear for detailed observation are incomparable; and observation is to the satirist what bullets are to a gun.
— The Boston Sunday Globe on Bonfire of the Vanities
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Human comedy, on a skyscraper scale and at a taxi-meter pace.
— Newsweek on Bonfire of the Vanities
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Richly entertaining . . . A superb human comedy and the first novel ever to get contemporary New York, in all its arrogance and shame and heterogeneity and insularity, exactly right.
— Washington Post Book World on Bonfire of the Vanities
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This novel contains passages as powerful and as beautiful as anything written--not merely by contemporary American novelists but by any American novelist.... The book is as funny as anything Wolfe has ever written; at the same time it is also deeply, strangely affecting.
— The New York Times Book Review on A Man in Full
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Wolfe is a genius in full.
— People on A Man in Full
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Superior...utterly engrossing.
— USA Today on A Man in Full