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Title: Anywhere but Here by Mona Simpson ISBN: 0-679-73738-3 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 15 January, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.27 (52 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Praise for "Anywhere But Here"
Comment: I found this to be one of the most enjoyable books I have ever read...Being a kid myself, I found it easy to relate to one of the main characters, Ann August. Throughout the book, the author allows us to see so many perspectives, including: Ann, her aunt Carol, her grandmother Lillian, and even her mother. They all have very different opinions about the nature of others' behaviors, but it is hard not to have an understanding for each and every one of them....whether they include true honesty, hard work, sacrifice, innocence, lying, or even cheating. These are very human characteristics and the Mona Simpson tries show us the hero in everyone. I was sad to finish this book because by the end of it, I felt I had become a part of Ann and Adele's very complicated lives, and even grown to respect everything they had done and gone through...
Rating: 2
Summary: anywhere but here
Comment: the book anywhere but here shows a mother who is capricious and unfulfilled trying to find a life for her daughter which she didn't have for herself. i found it confusing that the book jumped around and didn't have much of a plot. the boring unemotional character ann august who takes up much of the book keeps the book at an uneventful state, leaving you feeling like you don't want to finish the book. there were many parts that could have been left out and seemed unnecissary.
Rating: 1
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: I originally picked up this book after hearing it compared to Danzy Senna's superb novel "Caucasia," and found "Anywhere But Here" a huge disappointment. I agree with other reviewers who feel the book should have undergone a massive edit/rewrite before publication. There is some good beginning stuff here; some good raw material and ideas...BUT. "Anywhere But Here" lacks a cohesive plot and the characters are flat and dry. Ann, the daughter -- who narrates the bulk of the book -- is particularly dull and uninteresting. No causes, consequences, or conclusions arise from any of the anecdotes she tells. Instead they read as nothing more than a grocery list of facts: "We sat in the car." "I got a role on a TV show." "I took naked pictures of my classmates." The reader leaves this book hungry, disturbed...and bored. I kept waiting for it to get better, and for something to HAPPEN, but alas, nothing ever did. For a truly great read and an examination of a strange-tense-intriguing mother-daughter relationship, skip this one and try "Caucasia" instead.
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Title: A Regular Guy : A Novel by Mona Simpson ISBN: 0679772715 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 15 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Americana by Don DeLillo ISBN: 0140119485 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: July, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Journey by Ida Fink, Joanna Weschler, Francine Prose ISBN: 0374701245 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 01 July, 1992 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko ISBN: 0140086838 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Cold Mountain : A Novel by Charles Frazier ISBN: 0375700757 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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