"Brilliantly unnerving. . . . A haunting, sharp, splendidly articulate novel."""-"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
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"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 elan 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, an