Look at Me A Novel
Look at Me A Novel by Jennifer Egan is a reprint edition published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on October 8, 2002. This 544-page novel explores the life of Charlotte Swenson, a fashion model who faces a dramatic transformation after a car accident leaves her with a shattered face requiring extensive reconstruction. As she returns to New York, Charlotte grapples with her altered identity and the disconnection from the world she once knew.
In this multilayered narrative, Egan weaves together Charlotte’s story with those of other characters affected by society’s obsession with image. Readers will encounter a teenage girl leading a secret life, an alcoholic private investigator, and a mysterious figure who adopts various identities while plotting a significant upheaval. Look at Me delves into themes of identity and imposture, presenting a psychological thriller that challenges perceptions of self and society.
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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 named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown with her face so badly shattered that it takes eighty titanium screws to reassemble it.
She returns to New York still beautiful but oddly unrecognizable, a virtual stranger in the world she once effortlessly occupied.
With the surreal authority of a David Lynch, Jennifer Egan threads Charlotte’s narrative with those of other casualties of our infatuation with the image. There’s a deceptively plain teenaged girl embarking on a dangerous secret life, an alcoholic private eye, and an enigmatic stranger who changes names and accents as he prepares an apocalyptic blow against American society.
As these narratives inexorably converge, Look at Me becomes a coolly mesmerizing intellectual thriller of identity and imposture.
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