Nan A. Talese Sep 2001, hc $24.95

Look at Me
by Jennifer Egan

In her first novel since her widely praised debut, The Invisible Circus, Jennifer Egan demonstrates once again her virtuosity at weaving a spellbinding story with language that dazzles. In this boldly ambitious and symphonic novel, she captures the tenor of our times and offers an unsettling glimpse of the future.

Look At Me explores the problems of identity in a culture so focused on images through the connected stories of a former fashion model and an estranged teenage girl. Egan illuminates the difficulties of shaping an inner life in a culture obsessed with surfaces and asks whether "truth" can have any meaning in an era when reality itself has become a style.

Written with powerful intelligence and grace, Look at Me clearly establishes Jennifer Egan as one of the most daring and gifted novelists of her generation.

Jennifer Egan is also the author of The Invisible Circus (which was released as a movie starring Cameron Diaz and Jordana Brewster), and a collection of stories, Emerald City. Born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco, Egan attended the University of Pennsylvania and St. John's College, Cambridge. Her fiction has appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Harpers, GQ and Ploughshares, and she is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.