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“The Lost Father picks up the story of Ann Stevenson, the 12-year-old central figure of the earlier novel, years later, as she attempts to cope with medical school, an isolated life in New York City and, most important, her lifelong obsession with finding the father she never knew.
The Lost Father is an autobiographical fiction novel written by American novelist Mona Simpson. It is the sequel to Simpson's first novel, Anywhere But Here and based on her real search for her father, Abdulfattah ‘John’ Jandali.
- Mona Simpson
- 1993
Now a woman of twenty-eight and finally on her own in medical school, Mayan becomes obsessed with the father she never knew, leading her to hire detectives to dredge up the past, thus eroding her savings, ruining her career, and flirting with madness in a search spanning two continents.
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29 de mar. de 2023 · Lucy Scholes revisits The Lost Father by Marina Warner, the author’s third novel which was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1988.
A lush and densely-drawn inter-generational saga about the mythology and mystery that defines an Italian family, The Lost Father was the novel that established Warner’s reputation as a writer who was equally skilled and as comfortable writing fiction as she was non-fiction.
1 de jan. de 2001 · The novel follows Mayan, main character, as she searches for the father she has not since childhood, and of whom no record can be found. Mayan carries her weighty emotional baggage from medical school in New York, to Egypt, her father’s homeland, and across the Western US.
The lost father by Simpson, Mona. Publication date 1992 Topics Fathers and daughters -- Fiction Publisher New York : Knopf Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled
