Off Keck Road seems an off-putting title for a book--just try saying it out loud. But that might be the point. Mona Simpson, celebrated author of Anywhere but Here, The Lost Father, and A Regular Guy, has written a novel about life's www.doorway.ru characters are people no one really wants, and Keck Road, in a dingy Wisconsin suburb, is a place where no one wants to live.4/5(27). · Editorial Reviews "Off Keck Road should not be read in public places, against the certainty of tears Continually moving in a wry, Chekhovian way." —The Atlantic Monthly Replace bottom two quotes with this quote alone: "Showcases the gifts of emotional sympathy and psychological observation that Ms. Simpson used to such enormous effect in Anywhere But www.doorway.ru: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. About Off Keck Road. In this flawless novella, Mona Simpson turns her powers of observation toward characters who, unlike Ann and Adele August in her bestselling Anywhere but Here, choose to stay rather than go. As a high school student in Green Bay, Bea Maxwell raised money for good causes; later, she became a successful real estate agent and an accomplished www.doorway.ru:
Mona Simpson's heartbreaking novella Off Keck Road concerns two Green Bay women haunted by the regret and loss that settle in as their lives are permanently held in limbo. A slim volume at little. Mona Simpson, who has brought us the wondrously moving and compelling stories behind ANYWHERE BUT HERE, THE LOST FATHER, and A REGULAR GUY, now writes OFF KECK ROAD, a short but touching story about everyday people who turn to their homesteads and go back after being out in the world for a while not the usual travelers and searchers that her other books are all about. About Off Keck Road. In this flawless novella, Mona Simpson turns her powers of observation toward characters who, unlike Ann and Adele August in her bestselling Anywhere but Here, choose to stay rather than go. As a high school student in Green Bay, Bea Maxwell raised money for good causes; later, she became a successful real estate agent and an accomplished knitter.
"Off Keck Road should not be read in public places, against the certainty of tears Continually moving in a wry, Chekhovian way." —The Atlantic Monthly Replace bottom two quotes with this quote alone: "Showcases the gifts of emotional sympathy and psychological observation that Ms. Simpson used to such enormous effect in Anywhere But Here. Off Keck Road Mona Simpson, Author Alfred A. Knopf $19 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. ARTICLES. Playground Epiphanies; Family Politics: PW Talks With Mona Simpson. Off Keck Road is a beautiful novella about the lives of several women in Green Bay over the course of many decades. Simpson describes the changing landscape of Green Bay, three single women coming of age and dealing (or not dealing) with their problems.
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