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In a satiric send-up of image culture in America, Look at Me follows the lives of two women named Charlotte: one, a stunning fashion model disfigured in an accident, and the other, the plain-looking adolescent daughter of an estranged friend from her youth. More about this book >
Mesmerizing, hauntingly beautiful, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller and a wealth of detail about organized crime, the merchant marine and the clash of classes in New York, Egan’s first historical novel is a masterpiece, a deft, startling, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men, America, and the world. More about this book >
Jennifer Egan Presents Don DeLillo with the 2015 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
Jennifer Egan is the author of five previous books of fiction: A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Granta, McSweeney’s, and The New York Times Magazine.
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