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Title Statement | The first bad man: a novel / by Miranda July. |
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Author | July, Miranda, 1974- |
Publication | New York ;: Toronto: Scribner,2015. |
Edition | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
Extent of Item | 276 pages |
ISBN | 1439172560 9781439172568 |
Other Number | 2623705 |
Summary | "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 nonprofit 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 obsession 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"--Provided by publisher. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Middle-aged women--Fiction |
Man-woman relationships--Fiction | |
By Genre | Humorous fiction |