Look at Me -- Jennifer Egan, Paperback

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.

Author: Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 10/08/2002
Pages: 544
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780385721356

Review Citation(s):
BookPage 10/01/2002 pg. 25
Entertainment Weekly 10/18/2002 pg. 118
Romantic Times 12/01/2002 pg. 67 - Excellent
Kliatt 01/01/2003 pg. 14
Booksense '76 Nov/Dec 2002 11/01/2002 pg. 1

About the Author
Jennifer Egan is the author of four novels: A Visit from the Goon Squad, The Keep, Look at Me, 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.