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Look at me a novel

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 windshield 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.

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  • "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 windshield 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."@en
  • "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, Look at Me becomes a coolly mesmerizing intellectual thriller of identity and imposture.From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • "A New York, Charlotte Swenson, mannequin en fin de carrière, est victime d'un terrible accident qui la défigure. La chirurgie parvient à lui redonner des traits normaux. Elle rencontre pendant sa convalescence une jeune fille au physique banal, qui lui apprend beaucoup sur les apparences. De retour à New York, plus personne ne la remarque et elle ne parvient pas à réintégrer son ancien milieu."
  • "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 th."@en
  • "Een succesvol fotomodel wil na een ernstig auto-ongeluk een nieuw leven beginnen en probeert erachter te komen wie haar geheimzinnige minnaar was."
  • "Reconstructive facial surgery after a car crash so alters Manhattan model Charlotte Swenson that, within the fasion 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 dammn 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."
  • "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, Look at Me becomes a coolly mesmerizing intellectual thriller of identity and imposture."
  • "Model Charlotte Swenson returns to Manhattan after recovering from a devastating car accident in her Illinois hometown. She finds that she can't restart her career and floats invisibly through the New York fashion world."@en
  • "Model Charlotte Swenson returns to Manhattan after recovering from a devastating car accident in her Illinois hometown. She finds that she can't restart her career and floats invisibly through the New York fashion world."

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Look at Me : Roman"
  • "Se på mig"@da
  • "Look at me a novel"@en
  • "Spójrz na mnie"@pl
  • "Spójrz na mnie"
  • "Look at Me A Novel"@en
  • "Look at Me"@en
  • "Look at me"
  • "Look at me : a novel"@en
  • "Look at me : a novel"
  • "Look at me : Roman"
  • "Kijk naar mij"
  • "L'envers du miroir : [roman]"
  • "Guardami"@it
  • "Guardami"
  • "Look at me Roman"
  • "Look at me : [a novel]"
  • "L'envers du miroir"
  • "L'envers du miroir : roman"

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