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Look at Me
Jennifer Egan
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Description for Look at Me
Paperback. The stunningly well praised second novel from Jennifer Egan the author of the bestselling A Visit from the Goon Squad, which also won the Pulitzer Prize. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 198 x 33. Weight in Grams: 422.
Reconstructive facial surgery after a car crash so alters Manhattan model Charlotte that, within the fashion world, where one's look is oneself, she is unrecognizable. Seeking a new image, Charlotte engages in an Internet experiment that may both save and damn her. As her story eerily converges with that of a plain, unhappy teenager - another Charlotte - it raises tantalizing questions about identity and reality in contemporary Western culture.
Jennifer Egan's bold, innovative novel, demonstrating her virtuosity at weaving a spellbinding, ambitious tale with language that dazzles, captures the spirit of our times and offers an unsettling glimpse ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780330990
SKU
V9781780330990
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About Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan is the author of the critically acclaimed A Visit from the Goon Squad, The Keep, The Invisible Circus, and the story collection Emerald City. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, GQ, Zoetrope, All-Story, and Ploughshares, and her nonfiction appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine. She lives with her husband and sons ... Read more
Reviews for Look at Me
...a comic, richly imagined, and stunningly written exploration of the American obsession with self-invention.
New Yorker
Brilliantly unnerving. . . . A haunting, sharp, splendidly articulate novel.
The New York Times
Egan limns the mysteries of human identity and the stranglehold our image-obsessed culture has on us all in this complicated and wildly ambitious novel.
... Read more
New Yorker
Brilliantly unnerving. . . . A haunting, sharp, splendidly articulate novel.
The New York Times
Egan limns the mysteries of human identity and the stranglehold our image-obsessed culture has on us all in this complicated and wildly ambitious novel.
... Read more