Look at me - Brossura

Egan, Jennifer

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1780330995 ISBN 13: 9781780330990

Casa editrice: Corsair, 2011

Riassunto

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 the spirit of our times and offers an unsettling glimpse of the future.

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Recensione:

...a comic, richly imagined, and stunningly written exploration of the American obsession with self-invention. (New Yorker)

Brilliantly unnerving. . . . A haunting, sharp, splendidly articulate novel. (The New York Times)

Egan limns the mysteries of human identity and the stranglehold our image-obsessed culture has on us all in this complicated and wildly ambitious novel. (Newsweek)

Ambitious, swiftly paced. . . . Egan writes with such shimmering élan that it?s easy to follow her cast on its journey. (The Wall Street Journal)

Dark, hugely ambitious. . . . As riveting as a roadside wreck and noxiously, scathingly funny. (Elle)

Egan's ability to move with ease between sincerity and satire sets Look at Me apart. . . . Her authentic-feeling details give a sense of unusual immediacy. (Vogue)

Prescient and provocative. . . . The characters . . . jump from the pages and dare you to care about them. . . . The prose is crisp and precise. . . . The pieces fit together at the end with a satisfying click. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Enjoyable and promising. (Financial Times)

After the success of Egan's 2011 Pulitzer-winning A Visit From The Goon Squad, this satire of identity and fame in modern culture is another wildly inventive and meticulously crafted piece of brilliance. (Stylist)

Sharp, clever, complex... I can't do this 514-page novel justice in 242 words. It's funny and serious, dry, sly and wry. The writing is as pin-sharp as the perceptions. Read it. (Independent on Sunday)

Descrizione del libro:

The stunningly well praised second novel from Jennifer Egan the author of the bestselling A Visit from the Goon Squad, which also won the Pulitzer Prize.

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• Editore: Corsair
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1780330995
• ISBN 13: 9781780330990
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 528