All Fours by Miranda July
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A BEST SUMMER READING PICK FOR THE TIMES, THE DAILY MAIL, THE FT AND THE GUARDIAN A 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR BBC R4 OPEN BOOK, THE OBSERVER, GQ, GRAZIA, HERO, i-D, NYLON, VULTURE A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey. Miranda July's second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July's wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman's quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic and domestic life of a 45-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectations while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.Essential . . . A book of vast scope, taking in men and women, the mind and the body, and society and solitude * * Guardian * *
July comes into her own [and] brings a new perspective . . . A menopause novel that's never boring * * Sunday Times * *
Voyeuristic and exploratory . . . Miranda July compels us with her provocations * * Times Literary Supplement * *
A fresh, oestrogen-fuelled take on the midlife crisis, but the prose is smart, sharp and deliciously readable. It's sexy, it's funny, but it's also warm and tender in the best ways * * Prospect Magazine * *
A witty, raw tale about freedom and reinvention * * i * *
A guidebook to female liberation * * Telegraph * *
Savvy introspection and bawdy comedy collide with exhilarating results * * Mail on Sunday * *
In All Fours . . . July challenges the binary of marriage and explores sexuality in perimenopause . . . She captures the agony and ecstasy of texting a romantic interest, and of being engulfed by desire * * Financial Times * *
Bawdy and frank . . . This is not a novel for the faint-hearted or the easily embarrassed * * Listener * *
Miranda July is a writer, filmmaker and artist. Her most recent book is The First Bad Man, a novel. July's collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in twenty-three countries. Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review, Harper's, and the New Yorker; It Chooses You was her first book of non-fiction. She wrote, directed and starred in The Future and Me and You and Everyone We Know, which won the Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Special Jury Prize at Sundance. In 2020 she debuted her third feature film, Kajillionaire. July lives in Los Angeles.
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SKU | GOR013789715 |
ISBN 13 | 9781838853440 |
ISBN 10 | 1838853448 |
Title | All Fours |
Author | Miranda July |
Condition | very good |
Binding type | Hardback |
Publisher | Canongate Books |
Year published | 2024-05-16 |
Number of pages | 336 |
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