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In the following review, Beevor offers a favorable assessment of The Lost Father.
Mona Simpson has a lot to live up to after the success of Anywhere but Here (1987), a modern American Bildungsroman, w...
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In the following review of The Lost Father, Coe commends Simpson's “marvelously accomplished” writing, but concludes that the novel is excessively long and burdened with tedious d...
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In the following excerpt, Phillips offers a favorable assessment of The Lost Father, though notes that the novel is hindered by repetitious description.
“I know of almost no pleasure greater th...
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In the following review of A Regular Guy, Eder finds shortcomings in the novel's flat characters and tenuous plot.
Tom Owens, a laid-back bio-tech whiz kid, has parlayed a home-made experiment ...
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In the following essay, based on an interview with Simpson, Bing provides an overview of Simpson's life and writing, and shares Simpson's comments about her work.
Mona Simpson's t...
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In the following review, Timson offers an unfavorable assessment of A Regular Guy.
American novelist Mona Simpson has produced some extraordinary writing about the pain that difficult or delinquent pa...
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In the following review, Brandmark offers an unfavorable assessment of A Regular Guy.
Tom Owens is “a man too busy to flush toilets.” A rich entrepreneur who gives his biotech companies ...
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In the following review, Fichtner offers a positive assessment of Off Keck Road.
Out where the four-lane highway narrows, where the malls and groomed subdivisions fade into trailer parks, canning plan...
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In the following review, Cheuse offers a positive assessment of Off Keck Road.
The short form doesn't always go hand in hand with the long view. Short novels usually focus on a particular incid...
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In the following review of Off Keck Road, Frank commends Simpson's presentation of female bonds and social constraints, but concludes that the author attempts too much in a short space, resulti...
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In the following interview, Simpson discusses the themes and characters of Off Keck Road
More than a year ago, in the middle of writing her fourth major novel, Mona Simpson, 43, took some time off to ...
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In the following excerpt, Lambert offers a generally positive assessment of Anywhere but Here, but concludes that the novel falls short of the depth and complexity that Simpson aspires to reach.
Mona ...
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In the following review of The Lost Father, Berch finds flaws in the novel's repetition and lack of focus.
The Lost Father, by Mona Simpson, which might have been titled The Lost Daughter, is t...
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In the following review of The Lost Father, Eder praises the novel's “rich human comedy,” but finds shortcomings in the protagonist's narrow self-examination and the book&#...
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In the following review, Timson offers a generally favorable assessment of The Lost Father.
American writer Mona Simpson set a high standard for herself in her extraordinary first novel, Anywhere but ...
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In the following review, Cooke offers a positive evaluation of The Lost Father. Drawing attention to the novel's archetypal quest theme, Cooke concludes that the novel is “a beautiful, o...
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Critical Review by Antony Beevor
