Look at Me

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Fiction
A LOS ANGELES TIMES, NEWSWEEK, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, AND PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
"Comic, richly imagined, and stunningly written. . . . An energetic, unorthodox, quintessentially American vision of America."
— THE NEW YORKER
AT THE START of this edgy and ambitiously multi-layered 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 surreal authority like that of David Lynch, Jennifer Egan interweaves Charlotte's story with those of other casualties of our infatuation with image. There's a deceptively plain teenage 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... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Fiction
A LOS ANGELES TIMES, NEWSWEEK, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, AND PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
"Comic, richly imagined, and stunningly written. . . . An energetic, unorthodox, quintessentially American vision of America."
— THE NEW YORKER
AT THE START of this edgy and ambitiously multi-layered 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 surreal authority like that of David Lynch, Jennifer Egan interweaves Charlotte's story with those of other casualties of our infatuation with image. There's a deceptively plain teenage 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, Lool< at Me becomes a coolly mesmerizing intellectual thriller of identity and imposture.
"Egan goes deefDer, surprising us again and again. [She] 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
"Arresting. . . . Look at Me is the real thing—brave, honest, unflinching. [It] is itself a mirror in which we can clearly see the true face of the times in which we //Ve."-Francine Prose, the new york observer Vissza