"Brilliantly unnerving. . . . A haunting, sharp, splendidly articulate novel."
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The New York Times "Comic, richly imagined, and stunningly written. . . . An energetic, unorthodox, quintessentially American vision of America." -
The New Yorker "
Look at Me is so engrossing, energetic, sharp, and funny, it reminded me of Ralph Ellison's masterpiece,
Invisible Man." -Maureen Corrigan,
Fresh Air (NPR)
"Arresting. . . .
Look at Me is the real thing-brave, honest, unflinching. [It] is itself a mirror in which we can clearly see the true face of the times in which we live." -Francine Prose,
The New York Observer
"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 "Intriguing. . . . An unlikely blend of tabloid luridness and brainy cultural commentary. . . . The novel's uncanny prescience gives
Look at Me a rare urgency." -
Time "Egan has created some compelling characters and written provocative meditations on our times. . . . [She] has captured our culture in its edge-city awfulness." -
The Washington Post Book World "
Look at Me is a complicated novel . . . but the questions it raises are worth following a lifetime of labyrinths toward the answers." -
Los Angeles Times "Ambitious, swiftly paced. . . . Egan writes with such shimmering élan that it's easy to follow her cast on its journey." -
The Wall Street Journal "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 "Impressive. . . . Few recent books have so eloquently demonstrated how often fiction, in its visionary form, speaks of truth." -
Salon.com "
Look at Me makes us think about our trust in the images that bombard us, and what we give away in the process." -
Chicago Tribune "Egan's rich new novel . . . is about bigger things: double lives; secret selves; the difficulty of really seeing anything in a world so flooded with images." -
The Nation "Stunning. . . . This is more than a story, it's a thought-world, a novel of ideas brilliantly cloaked in the skin of characters." -
The Sunday Oregonian "Egan's take . . . is surreal and profoundly ironic and exaggerated, but it still rings true. . . . Beneath it all, she finds characters worth saving." -
Hartford Courant "Breathtaking. . . . Combines the tautness of a good mystery with the measured, exquisitely articulated detail and emotional landscape of the most literary of narratives. . . . Sure to leave readers thinking about these very real characters for some time to come." -
BookPage "An imaginative, well-paced read with serious questions about the elusiveness of meaning inside the gilded cage. Egan has intelligence to burn but plenty of feeling too." -
People "Part mystery, part cultural critique, [
Look at Me]
. . . build[s] to a conclusion that is unexpected and disturbing, and mak[es] an incisive statement about our society's obsession with fame and glamour." -
San Francisco Chronicle "Riveting. . . . As the book gains momentum, Egan's writing is both fluid and driven, with wonderful slashes of satire. . . . A remarkable study of our culture . . . and of our palpable need to be known." -
O: The Oprah Magazine
"Egan has created a compelling world. . . . With [her] graceful prose and vivid characterizations, she navigates her plot lines' churning waters with admirable skill." -
Seattle Weekly "[A] scintillating inquiry into the complex and profound dynamics of perception. . . . Egan . . . animates a superb cast of intriguing and unpredictable characters, and tells an elegantly structured, emotionally arresting and slyly suspenseful story." -
Newsday "Dark, hugely ambitious. . . . As riveting as a roadside wreck-and noxiously, scathingly funny." -
Elle "Intelligent and refreshingly dark, Egan's eerie tale has the same mesmerizing pull as the culture it skewers." -
Us Weekly "This masterfully plotted work bears the stamp of a perceptive-if not clairvoyant-writer whose disturbing vision . . . rings all too true." -
SF Weekly "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
'An intelligent and gripping read ... wickedly satirical' Time Out