At the start of this edgy and ambitiously multilayered novel, 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. She returns to New York still beautiful but oddly unrecog
Look at Me
โ Scribed by Anita Brookner
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
- Year
- 2012;1997
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 124 KB
- Edition
- 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and pleasures of the lives of a glittering couple, only to find her hopes of companionship and happiness shattered.
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