{"product_id":"a-regular-guy-9780679772712","title":"A Regular Guy","description":"Mona Simpson's first two novels, \u003ci\u003eAnywhere But Here\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Father\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 Now, in her third novel, the narrator Ann Atassi has been replaced by a third-person narrator recounting the adventures of young Jane di Natali, but the theme remains the same: the search for, and the attempt to understand, the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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMona Simpson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eCasebook, Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eOff Keck Road\u003c\/i\u003e won the Heartland Prize from the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribun\u003c\/i\u003ee 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' Award, and, recently, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Simpson is on the faculty at UCLA and also teaches at Bard College.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844908355858,"sku":"9780679772712","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4802985f-f800-4d18-9e30-48427662928f.jpg?v=1737336337","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-regular-guy-9780679772712","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}