The Lost Father (advance reading copy)

Simpson, Mona (signed)

ISBN 10: 0394589165 / ISBN 13: 9780394589169

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1991

About this Item

Advance reading copy. Soft cover in Fine condition in a fine slipcase, 8vo. White stiff wrappers with titles in copper-color, glossy copper-colored heavy card-stock slipcase. Signed by Simpson on the first blank. Very clean copy, like new. Bookseller accession no.: 25382.

Seller Inventory # 003048

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lost Father (advance reading copy)
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394589165
• ISBN 13: 9780394589169
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Advance Reading Copy
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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. 40,000 first printing. $40,000 ad/promo. Tour.

About the Author

Mona Simpson is the author of Casebook, Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road, and My Hollywood. Off Keck Road won the Heartland Prize from the Chicago Tribune 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.