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Mayan Stevenson is finally on her own in medical school, where her obsession with the father she never knew returns with a vengeance, leading her to hire detectives to dredge up the past.
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Classical in form, spare, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Mona Simpson
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 505
- Publisher
- Knopf, Vintage Books, Faber
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780394589169
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About Mona Simpson · 1957
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