A regular guy / a novel by Mona Simpson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simpson, Mona.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Vintage contemporaries

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Girls--California--Fiction.

Girls.

Inventors--California--Fiction.

Inventors.

Fathers and daughters--California--Fiction.

Fathers and daughters.

California.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

372 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First Vintage contemporaries edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 1997.

Summary:

"Tom Owens is a brilliant barefoot entrepreneur who has become rich and famous by inventing a new kind of business--a man who is fond of showering his largesse on friends and perfect strangers even as he resists any deeper claims on his affection. Into Owens's charmed life comes a ten-year-old girl whose claims he cannot ignore: Jane is his daughter, born out of wedlock, raised in communes, and now dispatched into his care by a mother who is no longer capable of providing it. As this raggedy, preternaturally observant girl seeks a place within Owens's circle, A Regular Guy depicts the miraculous chemistry that transforms longing into belonging, an uneasy ménage into a family, and an arrogant boy-man into a father."--Book cover.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1996.

ISBN:

0679772715

9780679772712

OCLC:

39178369