| Look at Me Contributor(s): Egan, Jennifer (Author), Warren, Rachel (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1609988159 ISBN-13: 9781609988159 Publisher: Audiogo OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.6" H x 5" W x 5.9" (1.00 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 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, Look at Me becomes a coolly mesmerizing intellectual thriller of identity and imposture. |
Contributor Bio(s): Egan, Jennifer: - Jennifer Egan is the author of 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 frequently appears in New York Times Magazine. She lives with her husband and sons in Brooklyn. |