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Original Title:	Look at Me
ISBN:	0385721358 (ISBN13: 9780385721356)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Charlotte Swenson
Setting:	New York City, New York(United States)
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2001)

Look at Me

Jennifer Egan

Paperback | Pages: 417 pages

Rating: 3.4 | 11177 Users | 1265 Reviews

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At the start of this edgy and ambitiously multilayered novel, 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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Title	:	Look at Me
Author	:	Jennifer Egan
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 417 pages
Published	:	October 8th 2002 by Anchor (first published 2001)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Novels. Literary Fiction. Literature. American. Adult Fiction

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Ratings: 3.4 From 11177 Users | 1265 Reviews

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Ever wanted to read a philosophical novel with all the philosophy taken out? Here's your beast. I'd thought, since she's been in the news for a recent novel, that Egan was alive and well, but this novel makes it quite obvious that she died sometime around 1914, and is in fact a Victorian novelist disguised as our contemporary. Why is it obvious?* slightly poetic but otherwise totally banal prose style.* huge numbers of plots that never actually get joined together. * fascination with characters,

Egan's lyric and poetic storytelling style immediately captured me, as did the compelling voice of protagonist Charlotte Swenson, who narrates several chapters of this novel throughout her convalescence from the horrifying car accident that opens the book. Along with Charlotte, Egan amasses an interesting cast of characters, each of them exploring how they construct their identities.It was a fairly quick read that I couldn't easily put down. There is an interesting commentary on technology and

In my summer quest to read some of the titles that have been languishing on my TBR for years, I picked up Jennifer Egans 2001 novel, Look at Me. Egan is an author I should love. Her books (of which Ive read four now) contain all the elements I love to read: non-linear storytelling; complex and damaged characters; and the exploration of a big idea. Look at Me is no exception as it explores the idea of how we see ourselves, others, the world, truth through the shifting perspectives of four very

I didn't want to like Jennifer Egan; I wanted to love her. I wanted her to be my new favorite writer, but due to some profound personal failing, I can't stand her books, which does pose something of a challenge there. I really don't know what's wrong with me and why I can't love this book like everyone else (i.e., Mike Reynolds); it has something to do with feeling really unimpressed by her prose, and by this feeling that nothing about her writing ever surprises me. I remember this from when I

I couldn't wait to finish this book. I just wanted it to end with every turn of the page. Despite the book turning into a perpetual monkey on my back, I was resolute on not giving up on it. It's just not in my genetic make-up to give up and be defeated, even by a densely crap book. Despite the pain, I wanted to keep on reading, not because I wanted to discover what happened, but because I have this 'thing' about half-finished projects, or anything in life, really, and this also goes for books.

I didn't fall in love as quickly or rapturously as "A visit from the goon squad," but the writing is quite good, and it's drawing me in.I finished it. Enthralled. Five stars.

Re-reading!***I am so hot for Jennifer Egan right now. As I read this book (about a whole lot more than a model who gets a new face after a car accident, by the way), I often had to stop and admire the fluidity of Egan's narrative, how she moved in and out of action, in and out of flashback, in and out of a character's head. This book seemed so effortless, yet complicated, and I learned a lot about novel-making from reading it.There was a chunk of about 60 pages near the end when I suddenly was