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| [The Egyptologist] is even more clever and erudite
than in his brilliant debut "Prague"... ...damn that boy can write."
-- The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC) -- 10/10/04 |
| "...delirious, witty fun..." -- The News &
Observer -- 10/10/04 |
| "This is a dense and witty novel, full of surprises
and puzzles, set in a hot, dusty landscape populated by odd
characters." -- Providence Journal -- 9/26/04 |
| "...well worth the careful excavation it requires..."
-- USA Today -- 9/16/04 |
| "...a work of imaginative prowess that more than
fulfills the promise of "Prague." It's ambitious. It's inventive.
It's challenging... ...The true treasure of "The Egyptologist" is
not the potential riches to be found in Atum-hadu's tomb, but rather
Phillips himself." -- San Francisco Chronicle -- 9/12/04 |
| "His [Arthur Phillips'] second [novel] is a glittery,
intricate entertainment, the work of a writer uncommonly skilled at
creating intelligent puzzles." -- San Jose Mercury News --
9/12/04 |
| "..."The Egyptologist" soars so high into clouds of
such bright comic invention, that Phillips achieves a hilarity equal
to anything in "Prague"" -- New York Time Book Review --
9/12/04 |
| ""The Egyptologist" is nothing like Phillips's bestselling
debut, "Prague" (2002), and yet it's full of all the dazzling talent
he showed there." -- Christian Science Monitor -- 9/8/04 |
| "Where in the fictional world will that swashbuckling
Phillips turn up next?" -- Star Tribune --9/5/04 |
"..."The Egyptologist" is a genuine thriller, it is
also genuinely hilarious. In Phillips' hands this makes for an
outlandish and refreshing literary combo."-- San Diego Union
Tribune -- 9/5/04
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| "Phillips, who had a best seller two years ago with his first novel,
"Prague," has an excellent chance of repeating his success in this entirely
different sort of outing." -- Pittsburg Post Gazette -- 9/5/04 |
| "...Phillips' accomplished, exhaustively researched
novel..." -- Newsday -- 9/5/04 |
| "[With The Egyptologist]... Phillips has successfully
avoided the sophomore jinx and the curse of the mummy." --
Cleveland Plain Dealer -- 9/5/04 |
| "...an adventure in unreliable narration, and replete
with old-fashioned charms." -- Salon.com --9/2/04 |
| "...an intricately built whodunit for the King Tut
lover in all of us..." -- Esquire -- 9/1/04 |
| "The richly imagined and exceedingly elaborate
story... ...is both historical fiction and farce." -- Details
-- September/04 |
| "...readers will be crazed to get to the next
page..." -- People Magazine, Four Stars Critic's Choice --
8/30/04 |
| "...nothing is what it seems in this awesomely clever
fiction." -- Orlando Sentinel -- 8/29/04 |
| "...a work of remarkable dimension, a tale as deep as
it is tall. ...[a] multi-perspective book that is literally and
literarily fabulous." -- Atlanta Journal Constitution --
8/29/04 |
| "...nothing or nobody is what it seems, in this
awesomely clever fiction." -- Chicago Sun Times -- 8/29/04 |
| "...a droll yet gripping tale... ...an astonishingly
clever Nabokovian tangle of evasions and deceptions." -- St.
Louis Post-Dispatch -- 8/29/04 |
| "it's funny, original and adventuresome... The
elements come together in a shocking conclusion." --
Sacramento Bee -- 8/29/04 |
| "...The Egyptologist is a brave, deft, high-wire act
of storytelling... ...clever, ambitious and artfully constructed..."
-- The Miami Herald -- 8/29/04 |
| "Arthur PHILLIPS' second novel, "The Egyptologist,"
reads like a love child of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of
Amontillado" and Vladimir Nabokov's "Pale Fire," with Oscar Wilde's
Bunbury from "The Importance of Being Earnest" as godparent… ….it
excavates deeper themes of class and immortality while further
showcasing Phillips' brainy playfulness and his fascination with
pipe dreamers and grand illusions." -- Los Angeles Times Book
Review -- 8/29/04 |
| "Phillips' rollicking plot wind down to a finish both
poignant and eye-popping... ...his entertaining characters are
believably two- or three-faced, and his phrasing is gorgeous"
-- Detroit Free Press -- 8/29/04 |
| "Resonant and knowing, this comedy of manners and
mores attests above all to an astonishing imagination." --
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel -- 8/28/04 |
| "...a testament to Mr. Phillips's art that "The
Egyptologist" keeps us reading to the very end..." --
Entertainment Weekly -- 8/27/04 |
| "Clever …[Phillips] demonstrates great zest in mixing
fact and fiction, history and satire to concoct a rollicking
narrative that’s one part Evelyn Waugh, one part H. Rider Haggard,
[and] one part World Book Encyclopedia." -- New York Times -
8/24/04 |
| "This is a suave, elegant novel, replete with
sinuously composed sentences and delicious wordplay...
Phillips's formidable research and witty prose make this one well
worth your time. He's quite possibly a major novelist in the
making." -- Kirkus Review -- 8/1/04 |
| "...The Egyptologist is complicated, fulfilling and
full of good characters." -- New York Post -- 8/22/04 |
| "Highly recommended..." -- Library
Journal -- July/04 |
| "Phillips proves himself once again to be a
wildly creative storyteller." -- Booklist -- June/04 |
| "Phillips is a master manipulator, able to
assume a dozen convincingly different voices at will, and his book
is vastly entertaining" -- Publishers Weekly -- 6/30/04 |
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