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Anywhere But Here
Anywhere But Here
Author: Mona Simpson
Eleven-year old Ann August and her mother Adele abandon their home in Wisconsin and set off on a drive to California so Ann can become a child film star in Hollywood. Left behind are the two people Ann loves best in the world: her grandmother Lillian and her cousin Benny. Frivolous Adele is the cause of all Ann's worries: she's always hoping to ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781843542162
ISBN-10: 1843542161
Publication Date: 9/2/2004
Pages: 416
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Publisher: Atlantic Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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A mother has in mind a film career for her daughter, and they move to California with this in mind. The daughter moves from adoring her mother to doubting the wisdom of her plans and methods.
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The mother and daughter bound for California and the midwstern family left behind. The obsessive desire to rise in the world, the passion be anywhere but the here we are born to...As the book opens Adele August and her 12-year-old daughter, Ann are running away to California in her splindid (unpaid for) Lincoln Continental fleeing small-town boredom and what she believes to be the dead-end lives of her mother and sister. A book that holds us with its storytelling brilliance, its sharp and profound understanding, its generousity of spirit.



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