To write this novel, Tom Wolfe spent about four years on college campuses. He transferred the world that had opened up to him on paper. Charlotte Simmons, an intelligent, modest and naive girl from a simple family, an excellent student from a tiny town, having entered one of the most elite universities in the USA, is amazed to discover that the interests of most students boil down to sex, drinking, the desire to show off oneself as cool, to have a good time, and not at all to study and understand the world, in which there are so many interesting things...