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Wolfe's Morality Play Wins "Bad Sex" Award
14 December 2004What's wrong with Charlotte Simmons, heroine of Tom Wolfe's latest novel? David Brooks bravely defied the bobos last month, by proclaiming Wolfe's southern belle Charlotte a victim thrown into an amoral (presumably northeastern) college universe where chivalry and character-building are dead, professors use irony quotes when talking about God, bathrooms are co-ed, and even good girls like Charlotte do. On the other hand, maybe it wasn't "moral suicide" but just bad sex...
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