Mona Simpson, Simpson Mona Commitment English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor MONA SIMPSON is the author of Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road, My Hollywood , and Casebook . She has received a Whiting Writer's award, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton, an NEA fellowship, a Guggenheim grant, a Lila Wallace Prize, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Mary McCarthy Prize. Off Keck Road was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and won the Heartland Prize from the Chicago Tribune. She was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is the publisher of The Paris Review, where she worked as an editor in her twenties. She lives in Santa Monica, California. She's on the faculty at UCLA, where she often teaches Middlemarch. Klappentext A masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother's collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state hospital in the 1970s. Vorwort A masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother's collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state hospital in the 1970s. Zusammenfassung A masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother's collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state hospital in the 1970s.