A Regular Guy, Mona Simpson
A Regular Guy, Mona Simpson
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A Regular Guy

Author: Mona Simpson

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 13 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 10/16/2012

Synopsis

In this luminous and tartly comic new novel, Mona Simpson, modern master of the surreal family drama, trains her eye on a generation - and a man - torn between idealism and self-absorption.Tom Owens is a brilliant barefoot entrepreneur who has become rich and famous by inventing a new kind of business - a man who is fond of showering his largesse on friends and perfect strangers even as he resists any deeper claims on his affection. Into Owens's charmed life comes a ten-year-old girl whose claims he cannot ignore: Jane is his daughter, born out of wedlock, raised in communes, and now dispatched into his care by a mother who is no longer capable of providing it. As this raggedy, preternaturally observant girl seeks a place within Owens's circle, A Regular Guy depicts the miraculous chemistry that transforms longing into belonging, an uneasy menage into a family, and an arrogant boy-man into a father."Simpson understands families. She understands money. She understands America. This is a poignant, funny book about loss and disillusionment." - Chicago Tribune

About Mona Simpson

Mona Simpson is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim Grant and the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. She is the author of the acclaimed novels Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road and My Hollywood. She lives in Santa Monica, California with her husband and their two children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Katherine on March 31, 2023

Finally, I managed to read a novel! I hope this is a sign of things to come. As for a review: I surely can't be the only person who found her way to Mona Simpson's 'A Regular Guy' because she read about it in Watler Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography. I've been on something of a Steve Jobs tear lately.......more

Goodreads review by Marcellina on July 11, 2012

After reading the Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs last summer, it dawned on me the sister Mona Simpson mentioned is a novelist I was already familiar with. I had read her books "Anywhere but Here" (written in 1992 before she met her famous brother) and"My Hollywood" (written in 2011). I coul......more

Goodreads review by Maddi on November 12, 2011

Two and a half stars. Maybe two and a quarter. This was a book club selection, a fictional retelling of the rise and fall (before the return and higher rise) of Steve Jobs. Only in this book Steve Jobs is named Tom Owens, and instead of running a computer company, he runs a company that does somethin......more

Goodreads review by Candice on November 07, 2017

Hours of my life I can't get back. Like Simpson's other work, but this was disjointed and tedious and it wasn't until I figured out it was about Steve Jobs that it became mildly interesting and made more sense. It wasn't the story itself, another girl searching for her father, but the structure was......more

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