Anywhere But Here

A national bestseller--adapted into a movie starring Natalie Portman and Susan Sarandon--Anywhere But Here is the heart-rending tale of a mother and daughter. A moving, often comic portrait of wise child Ann August and her mother, Adele, a larger-than-life American dreamer, the novel follows the two women as they travel through the landscape of their often conflicting ambitions. A brilliant exploration of the perennial urge to keep moving, even at the risk of profound disorientation, Anywhere But Here is a story about the things we do for love, and a powerful study of familial bonds.

Author: Mona Simpson
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 01/15/1992
Pages: 546
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9780679737384
ISBN10: 0679737383
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Media Tie-In
- Fiction | Family Life | General
- Fiction | Women

About the Author
Mona Simpson is the author of Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road, and My Hollywood. Off Keck Road won the Heartland Prize from the Chicago Tribune and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. She has received a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim grant, a Lila Wallace Readers Digest Writers' Award, and, recently, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Simpson is on the faculty at UCLA and also teaches at Bard College.

www.monasimpson.com