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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. It also contains a fictionalized portrait of her mother, Joanne Carole Schieble.
The Lost Father shows a compelling imagination at odds with a sceptical and troubled intelligence: but it also contains more humdrum matter, and some potentially useful digressions. Lucy Scholes wrote about The Lost Father for the Booker Prize website in March 2023, available to read here .
1 de ene. 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 is a sequel in spirit to Mona Simpson’s first novel, the best-selling ‘Anywhere But Here.’ Intimate in scale, it is profound in implication: a study of the effects of being unfathered.
29 de mar. de 2023 · The Lost Father by Marina Warner. Warner luxuriates in sensual, poeticised language that’s thick with tactile details and rich metaphors. The novel is narrated by Anna Collouthar, a 38-year-old, divorced mother of one who works as an archivist, curating children’s ephemera at a London museum.
Jan 11, 1993 | ISBN 9780679733034. Add to Cart. Buy from Other Retailers: Ebook. +. About The Lost Father. In her highly acclaimed first novel, Anywhere But Here, Simpson created one of the most astute yet vulnerable heroines in contemporary fiction.
10 de ago. de 2011 · 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...
