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Title: Too hip to bother with
Review: Jennifer Egan's overly-hip, self-conscious writing style was distracting enough. Add a hodge-podge of unrealistic characters and contrived juxtaposition of settings (New York vs. Illinois) and you get a book that strains to impress but never really does. Others extol her writing style, but I found it mediocre and not terribly unique. The constant switch between narrative voices and characters was not very credible to me. By the end of the novel, I wasn't terribly invested in the outcome and just wanted to finish it (to justify the expense of time and money). The characters remained remote throughout the novel, and seemed more like fairly unbelievable character sketches or prototypes (the college professor having a nervous breakdown, the angst-ridden teenager, the stylish supermodel wishing she had a brain). Perhaps Egan's other novels are better, but this one was not terribly lucid or entertaining.
