Born in a commune, Jane has led an itinerant childhood with her mother and only a vague notion of her father. Years before, Tom Owens had dropped out of college to form a new kind of business; it was no time to start a family. But now he's famously successful, and suddenly a raggedy grade-school girl turns up at his house, claiming to be his daughter. This becomes yet another of his complex relationships - with Jane's mother; with his longtime girlfriend as well as her rivals for his affection; and with his best friend, a wheelchair-bound scientist.How Jane helps transform this odd constellation into a strangely cohesive family, and how her father eventually discovers his true self, is revealed in this ambitious, often comic account of the pursuit and cost of greatness. A 'Regular Guy' is a portrait of a legendary, quintessentially American entrepreneur trapped by the age he helped to define. More powerfully than ever before, Mona Simpson has uncovered the nature of longing and belonging, of blood relations and the human heart.
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