All Fours - Miranda July English version

In zeer nette staat. In het Engels.

International Edition

Penguin

ISBN 978-0-593-71969-5

An irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious, and surprising novel about a woman upending her life

A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from Los Angeles to New York City. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, checks into a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in 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 forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation 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.

"If the United States had the good sense to name national treasures, I'd nominate Miranda July." MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM, author of Day

"All Fours is profound and bawdy and deeply human, a brilliant work of art from a completely blown-open and fearless mind." EMMA CLINE, author of The Guest

MIRANDA JULY is a writer, filmmaker, and artist. Her debut novel, The First Bad Man, was an instant New York Times bestseller, and her collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper's, and The New Yorker. July lives in Los Angeles.