Look at Me

Look at Me

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Everybody loved this year's Pulitzer Prize winning "Visit From the Goon Squad" - including an unprecedented full "First Tuesday Book Club" panel. Egan's earlier work "Look at Me" is also getting great (retrospective) raps - and quickly sold out here at the 'Chain on it's re-release. Hipsters and lovers of good fiction need this in their beach bag....
Reconstructive facial surgery after a car crash so alters Manhattan model Charlotte that, within the fashion world, where one's look is oneself, she is unrecognizable. Seeking a new image, Charlotte engages in an Internet experiment that may both save and damn her. As her story eerily converges with that of a plain, unhappy teenager - another Charlotte - it raises tantalizing questions about identity and reality in contemporary Western culture. Jennifer Egan's bold, innovative novel, demonstrating her virtuosity at weaving a spellbinding, ambitious tale with language that dazzles, captures the spirit of our times and offers an unsettling glimpse of the future.