Look at Me (paperback)
by:
Jennifer Egan (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780330490412 (0330490419)
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Edition language: English
4 stars, but borrow it.
4 stars, but borrow it.
solid, high-level literary fiction concerning the adventures of a 35-year-old Manhattan model past her peak and who has suffered a car accident altering her features. like the later (2010) [b:Visit from the Goon Squad|7331435|A Visit from the Goon Squad|Jennifer Egan|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/135...
It's almost impossible to read this book with any sort of objective eye in the year 2013. It was written in the six years leading up to 2001 and released a week after 9/11. To've read it in, say, August 2001 - that would be the ideal. Because it isn't just the 9/11 thing that is prescient but rat...
It's hard to truly describe my feelings about this book. It's not that Jennifer Egan isn't an excellent writer. Quite the opposite actually, she's very good at creating characters with depth and breadth. The problem, for me, was in the writing. This is a massively over-written book. Points that coul...
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