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Article: Road to success takes `Prague' author on road to Egypt.
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- Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN)
- Article date:
- September 29, 2004
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Byline: Mary Ann Grossmann
"The Egyptologist" by Arthur Phillips; Random House ($24.95)
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Reading Arthur Phillips' new novel, "The Egyptologist," is like unwrapping a mummy.
The tightly layered plot unwinds, at breakneck speed, to a climax as dazzling as a gold necklace on a pharaoh's chest.
It's very different from Phillips' best-selling debut novel, "Prague," about a group of young Americans in Budapest in the early 1990s.
"I was only in Egypt for a few days in 1991. I didn't have a lifelong Egyptology fixation," Phillips admitted when he and his family were in Minnesota to visit his parents.