- California, Fiction, Mothers and daughters, Large type books
Restless and ambitious Adele August and her twelve-year-old daughter Ann run away to California with a host of American dreams and myths to lead them.
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Classical in form, contemporary, spare and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- effortlessdemanding
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Mona Simpson
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, Knopf, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780747500179
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About Mona Simpson · 1957
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