{"product_id":"look-at-me-9780385721356","title":"Look at Me","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - In this ambitiously multilayered novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eA Visit from the Goon Squad\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe returns to New York still beautiful but oddly unrecognizable, a virtual stranger in the world she once effortlessly occupied. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs these narratives inexorably converge, \u003ci\u003eLook at Me\u003c\/i\u003e becomes a coolly mesmerizing intellectual thriller of identity and imposture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJennifer Egan\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of four novels: \u003ci\u003e A Visit from the Goon Squad\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Keep, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus;\u003c\/i\u003e and the story collection \u003ci\u003eEmerald City.\u003c\/i\u003e Her stories have been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, GQ, Zoetrope, All-Story, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePloughshares, \u003c\/i\u003e and her nonfiction appears frequently in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine.\u003c\/i\u003e She lives with her husband and sons in Brooklyn.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50526986830098,"sku":"9780385721356","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fd1f0d6f-685b-4414-90cd-3b1d59be00d1.jpg?v=1731289138","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/look-at-me-9780385721356","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}