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While the social commentary forms a significant part of the novel, Look At Me functions best as a purely literary work, thanks in large part to Egan’s remarkable narrative skill. Egan mixes flashbacks, stream of consciousness narratives and intellectual diatribes with careless ease to create a fitfully paced, engaging narrative that gradually builds in power. Her descriptions are precise and highly evocative. Charlotte details the reawakening of her memory: “The boredom and stasis of my present circumstances were driving me to retrospect in the desultory way that a person cooped...
Consider: An elderly woman tries to reunite her dysfunctional family for Christmas. Successful urbanites quit their stressful jobs and stream back to their hometowns. A generation of ordinary young folk are called on to risk their lives for their country. These are not examples from a social-trend story about our world after Sept. 11 but the subjects of some of the most popular entertainments created before. The same social changes we are seeing in real life--reconnecting with family, regaining respect for institutions and community, fleeing the rat race--were already rampant in books, in movies and especially...
Continuously mixed, it is a long, undulating stream of sample and beat alchemy that peaks repeatedly, comes down smoothly and surges forward again before finally ending on a chilled refrain of the opening theme. The transitions are so smooth that it’s impossible to tell when songs start and end; at first a woman announces that “Since I left you / I’ve found the world so new;” five tracks later we end up in the disco, where a ragga emcee is mashing it up with De La Soul...
...bazaar is open. Streetside shashlik stores send plumes of the thick smoke of lamb fat into the air, and yellow taxis ply their trade. The Alliance leader Ustad Mohammed Atta has become the unofficial mayor of Mazar, sitting cross-legged on the floor of his new home, receiving a stream of visits from town elders, tribal leaders and messengers from the frontlines...
...this wired age, shouldn't black boxes be more or less obsolete? It seems there should be a way to constantly stream the flight information back to a set point on the ground...