"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
"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
"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
"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
"[A] hilarious, exclamation-point filled novel."--John Freeman, Time Out New York
"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
"A lot of fun . . . Hilarious."--Francine Prose, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"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
"Scathingly clear-eyed, often very funny take on college life." --Robert Siegel, NPR, All Things Considered
"Dazzingly vivid . . . Tom Wolfe has served up another of his broadly entertaining novels."--Adam Begley, The New York Observer
"His most fully realized and hands-down funniest work of fiction."--Patrick Beach, Austin American-Statesman
"Captivating . . . Sit back and enjoy the ride."--Tom Walker, The Denver Post
"Tom Wolfe is America’s greatest living novelist."--Joseph Bottum, The Weekly Standard
"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
