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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 of the future.
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 in Brooklyn.
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.
Newsweek
Ambitious, swiftly paced. . . . Egan writes with such shimmering élan that it?s easy to follow her cast on its journey.
The Wall Street Journal
Dark, hugely ambitious. . . . As riveting as a roadside wreck and noxiously, scathingly funny.
Elle
Egan'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.
Vogue
Prescient 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 Inquirer
Enjoyable and promising.
Financial Times
After the success of Egan's 2011 Pulitzer-winning A Visit From The Goon Squad, this satire of identity and fame in modern culture is another wildly inventive and meticulously crafted piece of brilliance.
Stylist
Sharp, clever, complex... I can't do this 514-page novel justice in 242 words. It's funny and serious, dry, sly and wry. The writing is as pin-sharp as the perceptions. Read it.
Independent on Sunday
A prescient, pre-9/11 study of a society drowning in contrivances.
The Pulse
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.
Newsweek
Ambitious, swiftly paced. . . . Egan writes with such shimmering élan that it?s easy to follow her cast on its journey.
The Wall Street Journal
Dark, hugely ambitious. . . . As riveting as a roadside wreck and noxiously, scathingly funny.
Elle
Egan'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.
Vogue
Prescient 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 Inquirer
Enjoyable and promising.
Financial Times
After the success of Egan's 2011 Pulitzer-winning A Visit From The Goon Squad, this satire of identity and fame in modern culture is another wildly inventive and meticulously crafted piece of brilliance.
Stylist
Sharp, clever, complex... I can't do this 514-page novel justice in 242 words. It's funny and serious, dry, sly and wry. The writing is as pin-sharp as the perceptions. Read it.
Independent on Sunday
A prescient, pre-9/11 study of a society drowning in contrivances.
The Pulse