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| Author | Jennifer Egan |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Nan A. Talese / Doubleday |
Publication date | 2001 (1st edition) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 432 pp (Hardcover edition) |
| ISBN | 978-0-385-50276-4 |
Look At Me (2001, ISBN 978-0-385-50276-4) is a novel by American writer Jennifer Egan. [1] It was a National Book Award Finalist. [2] The novel was described in The New Yorker as "an energetic, unorthodox, quintessentially American vision of America," [3] and in Kirkus Reviews as "a surprisingly satisfying stew of philosophy, social commentary, and storytelling." [4]
The plot concerns several characters and weaves in and out of first and third person narratives, with the main character/narrator being Charlotte Swenson, who is attempting to revive her once-great career as a fashion model in New York City after a devastating car accident outside her hometown of Rockford, Illinois that resulted in reconstructive surgery to her face. Also explored are the lives of Michael West, a mysterious new math teacher in Rockford, Moose Metcalf, eccentric college professor and older brother of Charlotte's childhood friend Ellen, and Charlotte Hauser, Ellen's black-sheep teenage daughter.
