The First Bad Man
A Novel
Miranda July
‘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’
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Details
| ISBN | 9781439172568 |
| Genre | Humor; Fiction |
| Publication Date | 13-Jan-15 |
| Publisher | Scribner |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 288 |
| Notes | Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Lesbian Fiction |
| LoC Classification | PS3610.U537 .F57 2014 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Good |
| Subject | Fiction / Contemporary Women; Fiction / Humorous; Fiction / Literary; Man-woman Relationships – Fiction; Middle-aged Women – Fiction |
| BookID | 4024 |
