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Oct 15, 1997 · A Regular Guy : A Novel. Paperback – October 15, 1997. by Mona Simpson (Author) 64. See all formats and editions. Mona Simpson's first two novels, Anywhere But Here and The Lost Father, won her literary renown and a wide following. Now, in her third novel, the narrator Ann Atassi has been replaced by a third-person narrator recounting the ...
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Oct 8, 1996 · This is a story that can only be set in California. More than location, Mona Simpson's 1996 novel is a product of its time. Often subtle, and with its effect strongest in the superior first third of the book (more on that later), A Regular Guy stitches together the generational identities of the 1960s and the '90s.
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About A Regular Guy. Mona Simpson’s first two novels, Anywhere But Here and The Lost Father, won her literary renown and a wide following.Now, in her third novel, the narrator Ann Atassi has been replaced by a third-person narrator recounting the adventures of young Jane di Natali, but the theme remains the same: the search for, and the attempt to understand, the absent father.
- Paperback
“Her books may be inspired by similar emotional preoccupations, but her imagination works strictly from scratch. For A Regular Guy, she has created a voice, a perspective and a style that are entirely fresh and that give her prodigious talents a challenging new playing field. […] What a pleasure it is to see a successful novelist take a ...
Oct 15, 1997 · Mona Simpson is the author of Casebook, Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road, and My Hollywood. Off Keck Road won the Heartland Prize from the Chicago Tribune and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. She has received a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Guggenheim grant, a Lila Wallace–Reader's Digest Writers ...
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- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- 10/15/1997
- Vintage Contemporaries
Oct 15, 1997 · A Regular Guy. Mona Simpson. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Oct 15, 1997 - Fiction - 384 pages. Mona Simpson's first two novels, Anywhere But Here and The Lost Father, won her literary renown and a wide following. Now, in her third novel, the narrator Ann Atassi has been replaced by a third-person narrator recounting the adventures of young ...
Oct 14, 1996 · A strict report, worthy of sympathy. Share your opinion of this book. With a bestselling debut (Anywhere But Here, 1987) followed by a shaky sequel (The Lost Father, 1991), Simpson has a lot riding on her latest effort—which proves to be a challenging but less-than- riveting saga of a girl who finally meets her larger-than-life father but has ...
