Help me ASAP with the name of a book.

[TNDemo]

My SIL is at the store and will get it for me (gift for husband). It is out now, written by a 72-year-old famous author, whose name escapes me, and it has the name Charlotte in the title. It is about a college age girl and her sex life or something. Anyone know what I am so talking about so vaguely??

[mcscajun]

1. I Am Charlotte Simmons, perhaps?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374281580/qid=1103494427/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-6823356-6520963?v=glance&s=books

[RagingInMiami]

2. It's not Lady Chatterly's Love by DH Lawrence, is it?

[RevolutionaryActs]

3. I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe?

[LiviaOlivia]

4. Tom Wolfe's new book I Am Charlotte Simmons n/t

[TNDemo]

5. Found it.

It's I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe. Thanks!

[pretzel4gore]

7. dear god don't buy it....

wolfe is a horrible man who wrote ok 20 years ago, but something happens to a pig when he enjoys too much slop :(

[Laelth]

6. Tom Wolfe? Yuck!

Right-wing blow-hard. No thanks.

Here's a Tom Wolfe quote from a Rolling Stone interview:

"The liberal elite showed it was way out of touch even before the election. I was at a dinner party in New York and when everyone was wondering what to do about Bush I suggested they might do like me and vote for him. There was silence around the table, as if I’d said “by the way, I haven’t mentioned this before but I’m a child molester”."

-Laelth

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

8. He was just awarded worst sex writing for this book in Britain.

Heard a blurb and a writing sample on "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me this morning on NPR.

When I heard the sample, I thought it was the Bulwar Lytton awards.

[TNDemo]

9. I gave her the name of two books

so maybe the got the other one. They mentioned this on books to buy on CBS Sunday Morning so I thought it might be good and my husband had heard an interview. The other book I asked her to look for was The Plot Against America by Roth. Maybe she got it.

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. They say his smut righting leaves a lot to be desired.

That it's a bit juvenile but that the book on the whole is great. :hi: