'Prodigiously entertaining and profoundly moving' NY Times Book Review ** Dizzyingly inventive' Washington Post ** '[A] remarkable piece of work' San Francisco Chronicle ** 'Intelligent, intense and remarkably intuitive ... Egan gives us the satisfying thunk of a fully understood if unexpected, kind of sense' The NY Observer ** '...deeply intuitive forays into the darker aspects of our technology-driven, image-saturated culture - that has established the author and journalist as a prescient literary voice' Vogue 'Jennifer Egan spins a haunting tale ... Egan's brilliance is in balancing the deliciously creepy elements of gothic-castle novels with the dead-on realism of a prisoner's life, to create a book worth keeping' Vanity Fair ** 'Egan's third novel ... is a strange, clever, and always compelling meditation on the relationship between the imagination and the captivities of modern life' The Atlantic Monthly ** 'Visionary ... at once hyperrealistic and darkly dreamed... With Egan's powers of invention running at full tilt, THE KEEP reads like a twenty-first-century mash-up of Kafka, Calvino, and Poe, in which the absurd meets the surreal meet the unspeakable - to edgy, entertaining effect" Elle ** 'Egan gets everything right ... Her skill will keep you marvelling at the pages you can't help turning' People ** 'Egan is both a captivating storyteller and an incisive social observer ... THE KEEP is sublime' ** 'Dazzling ... A metafictional tour de force' Chicago Sunday Times ** 'THE KEEP is a novel of ideas' Poets and Writers ** 'Remarkably fresh and inventive' Library Journal ** 'Atmospheric and tense, this is a mesmerizing story' Booklist ** 'An original thrill-ride of a novel' Times-Leader
