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Mona Simpson lives in Santa Monica, California.
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Anywhere but Here
Written by Mona Simpson
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 15, 1992
Price: $14.95
Anywhere But Here is a moving, often comic portrait of wise child Ann August and her mother, Adele, a larger-than-life American dreamer. As they travel through the landscape of their often conflicting ambitions, Ann and Adele bring to life a novel that is a brilliant exploration of the perennial urge to... Read more >
Written by Mona Simpson
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 15, 1992
Price: $14.95
Anywhere But Here is a moving, often comic portrait of wise child Ann August and her mother, Adele, a larger-than-life American dreamer. As they travel through the landscape of their often conflicting ambitions, Ann and Adele bring to life a novel that is a brilliant exploration of the perennial urge to... Read more >
The Lost Father
Written by Mona Simpson
Format: Trade Paperback, 524 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 11, 1993
Price: $15.95
In her highly acclaimed first novel, Anywhere But Here, Simpson created one of the most astute yet vulnerable heroines in contemporary fiction. Now Mayan Atassi--once Mayan Stevenson--returns in an immensely powerful novel about love and lovelessness, fathers and fatherlessness, and the loyalties that shape us even when they threaten to destroy... Read more >
Written by Mona Simpson
Format: Trade Paperback, 524 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 11, 1993
Price: $15.95
In her highly acclaimed first novel, Anywhere But Here, Simpson created one of the most astute yet vulnerable heroines in contemporary fiction. Now Mayan Atassi--once Mayan Stevenson--returns in an immensely powerful novel about love and lovelessness, fathers and fatherlessness, and the loyalties that shape us even when they threaten to destroy... Read more >
Off Keck Road
A Novella
Written by Mona Simpson
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $11.00
In this flawless novella, Mona Simpson turns her powers of observation toward characters who, unlike Ann and Adele August in her bestselling Anywhere but Here, choose to stay rather than go.
As a high school student in Green Bay, Bea Maxwell raised money for good causes; later, she became a successful... Read more >
A Novella
Written by Mona Simpson
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $11.00
In this flawless novella, Mona Simpson turns her powers of observation toward characters who, unlike Ann and Adele August in her bestselling Anywhere but Here, choose to stay rather than go.
As a high school student in Green Bay, Bea Maxwell raised money for good causes; later, she became a successful... Read more >
Off Keck Road
Written by Mona Simpson
Format: eBook
Publisher: Knopf Group E-Books
On Sale: January 16, 2001
Price: $11.00
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Written by Mona Simpson
Format: eBook
Publisher: Knopf Group E-Books
On Sale: January 16, 2001
Price: $11.00
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A Regular Guy
Written by Mona Simpson
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 15, 1997
Price: $17.00
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... Read more >
Written by Mona Simpson
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 15, 1997
Price: $17.00
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... Read more >
Anna Karenina
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Introduction by Mona Simpson
Format: Trade Paperback, 976 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $10.95
Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful... Read more >
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Introduction by Mona Simpson
Format: Trade Paperback, 976 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $10.95
Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful... Read more >
