false 774726 10 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, <i>Look at Me</i> becomes a coolly mesmerizing intellectual thriller of identity and imposture. 118409 2001 Look at Me: A Novel total:1053|5:131|4:333|3:395|2:153|1:41| 1053 3519 1486 166 4 3 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Aug 23 10:06:21 -0700 2007 Wed Mar 12 06:42:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Thu Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 20:27:30 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 20:46:47 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 16 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Wed Aug 01 17:29:45 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 27 08:13:14 -0700 2009 3 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 20:38:31 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 08:27:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 1 false false Sat Jan 03 12:18:45 -0800 2009 Tue Jun 16 08:39:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 15:30:12 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 15:50:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 04:52:48 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 11:04:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 21 18:03:49 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 18:30:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 13:11:48 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 16:49:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 3 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 18:03:02 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 31 08:36:30 -0700 2007 Look at Me. It's a big mess of a book, but it's a smart mess. Egan is wildly imaginative and she has a lot of great ideas, but they don't cohere satisfactorily in the end.]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 13 19:35:16 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 19:43:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 17:29:40 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 17:35:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jan 02 06:51:16 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 07:09:32 -0800 2009
No, but get this. This model gets in a car accident, right? And she's a model so she's really hot, of course. Well, after the car acci...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Aug 25 17:38:04 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 17:38:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Nov 25 11:58:51 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 11:58:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sat Jul 05 05:38:14 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 05:39:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 02 14:42:02 -0700 2008 Wed May 20 06:34:44 -0700 2009 The Keep and The Invisible Circus were wonderful, so I had the same high hopes for Look at Me. The main storyline....okay that was fine, I had no problem w/ the synopsis on the back cover of the book. What threw me for a loop were all of the other side st...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 10:31:32 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 09 07:12:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 27 15:05:15 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 27 15:26:17 -0700 2008
The relationships she constructs in Look at Me are fascinating - my favorite being that of Moose and his niece, Charlotte, whom he tries to lead toward the breakthrough (breakdown?...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Mon Dec 10 16:54:53 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 20 08:17:03 -0800 2007 The Invisible Circus, Jennifer Egan demonstrates once again her virtuosity at weaving a spellbinding, ambitious story with language that dazzles. In this boldly innovative and symphonic novel, she captures the tenor of our times and offers an unsett...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=774726