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Anywhere but Here
Anywhere but Here
Author: Mona Simpson
Anywhere But Here is a moving, often comic portrait of wise child Ann August and her mother, Adele, a larger-than-life American dreamer. As they travel through the landscape of their often conflicting ambitions, Ann and Adele bring to life a novel that is a brilliant exploration of the perennial urge to keep moving, even at the risk of profound ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780679737384
ISBN-10: 0679737383
Publication Date: 1/15/1992
Pages: 544
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3.3 stars, based on 47 ratings
Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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A mother has in mind a film career for her daughter, and they move to California with this in mind. The daughter moves from adoring her mother to doubting the wisdom of her plans and methods.
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The mother and daughter bound for California and the midwstern family left behind. The obsessive desire to rise in the world, the passion be anywhere but the here we are born to...As the book opens Adele August and her 12-year-old daughter, Ann are running away to California in her splindid (unpaid for) Lincoln Continental fleeing small-town boredom and what she believes to be the dead-end lives of her mother and sister. A book that holds us with its storytelling brilliance, its sharp and profound understanding, its generousity of spirit.


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