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Miranda July

The First Bad Man

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From the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and bestselling author of “No One Belongs Here More Than You,” a spectacular debut novel that is so heartbreaking, so dirty, so tender, so funny-so Miranda July-readers will be blown away.
Here is Cheryl, a tightly-wound, vulnerable woman who lives alone, with a perpetual lump in her throat. She is haunted by a baby boy she met when she was six, who sometimes recurs as other people's babies. Cheryl is also obsessed with Phillip, a philandering board member at the women's self-defense non-profit where she works. She believes they've been making love for many lifetimes, though they have yet to consummate in this one.
When Cheryl's bosses ask if their twenty-one-year-old daughter Clee can move into her house for a little while, Cheryl's eccentrically-ordered world explodes. And yet it is Clee-the selfish, cruel blond bombshell-who bullies Cheryl into reality and, unexpectedly, provides her the love of a lifetime.
Tender, gripping, slyly hilarious, infused with raging sexual fantasies and fierce maternal love, Miranda July's first novel confirms her as a spectacularly original, iconic and important voice today, and a writer for all time. “The First Bad Man” is dazzling, disorienting, and unforgettable.
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  • Дарья Расковаshared an impression6 years ago
    👍Worth reading

    странная книга о том, как быть собой и принимать себя. ооочень интимная, очень чувственная, до некоторой дурноты. кайф!

  • Катя Шебедяshared an impression6 years ago
    🚀Unputdownable
    💧Soppy

Quotes

  • Дарья Расковаhas quoted6 years ago
    ure was so sad.
    We had fallen in love; that was still true. But given the right psychological conditions, a person could fall in love with anyone or anything. A wooden desk — always on all fours, always prone, always there for you. What was the lifespan of these improbable loves? An hour. A week. A few months at best. The end was a natural thing, like the seasons, like getting older, fruit turning. That was the saddest part — there was no one to blame and no way to reverse it.
  • Дарья Расковаhas quoted6 years ago
    you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?
  • Дарья Расковаhas quoted6 years ago
    was like a dream, where the most unlikely person can’t get enough of you — a movie star or someone’s husband. How can this be? But the attraction is mutual and undeniable; it is the reason for itself.

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