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 Now, in her third novel, the narrator Ann Atassi has been replaced by a third-person narrator recounting the adventures of young Jane di Natali, but the theme remains the same: the search for, and the attempt to understand, the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.

This time the father is a millionaire biotechnology magnate named Tom Owens. Into Owens's charmed life comes Jane, born out of wedlock, raised in communes, and now dispatched into his care by a mother who is no longer capable of providing it; Tom is far from ready for this responsibility. Fans of Simpson's previous novels will not be disappointed by this excursion into the cracked world of family relations.

"Simpson is an attentive observer and a fluent stylist, but it is the element of subtle surprise that draws us through these pages, the magnetism of an original mind that holds us fast."
--Booklist

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/15/1997
ISBN: 9780679772712
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.55w x 1.04d

Review Citations: New York Times 12/21/1997 pg. 24
Publishers Weekly 09/08/1997
People Weekly 10/24/2011 pg. 63