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050	0	0	_aPS3555.G292 _bL66 2001
082	0	0	_aFIC EGA
100	1		_aEgan, Jennifer
245	1	0	_aLook at me _b: a novel _c/ Jennifer Egan
250			_a1st Anchor Book ed
260			_aNew York _b: Anchor Books _c, 2002.
300			_a415 p. _c; 21 cm.
520			_aIn this boldly ambitious and symphonic novel, she captures the tenor of our times and offers an unsettling glimpse of the future. Fashion model Charlotte Swenson returns to Manhattan, having just recovered from a catastrophic car accident in her hometown of Rockford, Illinois. The skin of her face is perfect, but behind it lie eighty titanium screws that hold together the bones that were shattered when she hit the unbreakable windscreen of her car. Unrecognizable to her peers and colleagues, Charlotte finds it impossible to resume her former life. Instead, she floats invisibly through a world of fashion nightclubs and edgy Internet projects, where image and reality are indistinguishable. During her recovery in Rockford, she had met another Charlotte, the plain-looking teenage daughter of her former best friend. Young Charlotte, alienated from parents and friends, has come under the sway of two men: her uncle, a mentally unstable scholar of the Industrial Revolution, and an enigmatic high school teacher whom she seduces. In following these tales to their eerie convergence, Look at Me is both a send-up of image culture in America and a mystery of human identity.
650			_aIdentity (Psychology) _v--Fiction
650		4	_aTeenage girls _v--Fiction
651		4	_aTme travel _x-Fiction
655		7	_aPsychological fiction
942			_cMO
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