Another modern Jane Austen update — by Tom Wolfe?!
The idea of making a comedy of manners about a young virginal woman has already been attempted, some would argue more than passably, by Jane Austen. Hollywood, too, has cleverly brought Austen’s oeuvre to the campus with the sparkingly mordant Clueless.
Wolfe then must find something new to say. He then insists on finding a new way to say it. He fails on both counts.
Almost definitely not. 
