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Look at Me
Jennifer Egan
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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 of the future.
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Praise for Look at Me
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...a comic, richly imagined, and stunningly written exploration of the American obsession with self-invention. - New YorkerBrilliantly unnerving. . . . A haunting, sharp, splendidly articulate novel. - The New York TimesEgan limns the mysteries of human identity and the stranglehold our image-obsessed culture has on us all in this complicated and wildly ambitious novel. - NewsweekAmbitious, swiftly paced. . . . Egan writes with such shimmering elan that it?s easy to follow her cast on its journey. - The Wall Street JournalDark, hugely ambitious. . . . As riveting as a roadside wreck and noxiously, scathingly funny. - ElleEgan's ability to move with ease between sincerity and satire sets Look at Me apart. . . . Her authentic-feeling details give a sense of unusual immediacy. - VoguePrescient and provocative. . . . The characters . . . jump from the pages and dare you to care about them. . . . The prose is crisp and precise. . . . The pieces fit together at the end with a satisfying click. - Philadelphia InquirerEnjoyable and promising. - Financial Times
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