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| Author/Contributor(s): | Egan, Jennifer |
| Publisher: | Anchor |
| Date: | 10/8/2002 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • In this ambitiously multilayered novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, a fashion model namedCharlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown with her faceso badly shattered that it takes eighty titanium screws to reassemble it.
She returnsto New York still beautiful but oddly unrecognizable, a virtual stranger in the worldshe once effortlessly occupied.
With the surreal authority of a David Lynch, JenniferEgan threads Charlotte’s narrative with those of other casualties of our infatuationwith the image. There’s a deceptively plain teenaged girl embarking on a dangeroussecret life, an alcoholic private eye, and an enigmatic stranger who changes namesand accents as he prepares an apocalyptic blow against American society.
As thesenarratives inexorably converge, Look at Me becomes a coolly mesmerizing intellectualthriller of identity and imposture.
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