Name: All Fours
SKU: 64093364
Price: 502.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Miranda July
ISBN: 9781838853488

Type

Physical Book

Author

Miranda July

Publisher

Canongate Press Ltd.

Year

2025

Pages

400

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

128 x 198 x 27 (mm)

ISBN13

9781838853488

All Fours

Miranda July (Author) · Canongate Press Ltd. · Paperback

New Book Imported to Taiwan

Delivery: 28 Oct - 05 Nov

NT$ 502

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Synopsis "All Fours"

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.

It's very funny, quite dirty, and deeply profound, with a fragile magic that comes from entering an uncensored inner world. There is the added thrill as well, of July suggesting that midlife, and menopause in particular, might be kind of . . . hot - Observer

Rage, grief, lust, sadness, selfishness; this stunning book and July's nameless heroine have it all. I cannot wait to read it all over again - GILLIAN ANDERSON

A life-changer for me. I thought I was reading about middle age, then I thought I was reading about menopause, then motherhood, then sexuality, then monogamy, then marriage. And by the final page I realised I was reading about existence and death and I couldn't stop crying. Plus it's so funny and it's so horny. My favourite novel of this year - DOLLY ALDERTON

A giddy, bold, mind-blowing tour de force by one of our most important literary writers. Funny, honest, rich with the energy of the mind, All Fours will jump-start your relation to language and cause you to think anew about the nature of desire - GEORGE SAUNDERS

Transcendent . . . A book that emboldens you. To read it, is to feel gloriously, unashamedly alive - PANDORA SYKES

One of the freshest, funniest, most urgent voices I've read in a long time . . . Authentic and willingly honest. I couldn't put the book down. What a delight - HUGH JACKMAN

Wild and outrageous, provocative and entirely unpredictable - DAVID NICHOLLS

Miranda July

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Miranda July (1974) es cineasta, escritora y artista. Su obra se ha expuesto en lugares como The Kitchen, el museo Guggenheim, el MoMA, el Whitney o la Fondazione Prada Osservatorio de Milán. Escribió, dirigió y protagonizó su primer largometraje, Tú, yo y todos los demás (2005), que recibió un premio especial del jurado en Sundance y la Caméra d’Or en el Festival de Cannes. El futuro (2011), su segunda película, optó al Oso de Oro del Festival de Berlín y fue seleccionada entre las mejores películas del año por The New Yorker. Su película más reciente es Kajillionaire (2020). Su libro de relatos Nadie es más de aquí que tú (2009) fue publicado en veintisiete países y galardonado con el Frank O’Connor International Award. Su libro de no ficción Te elige (2012) fue uno de los mejores libros del año según Amazon, y O, The Oprah Magazine lo destacó como lectura imprescindible de ese año. Su primera novela, El primer hombre malo (2015), fue publicada en más de veinte países. Su última novela, A cuatro patas, ha sido best seller del New York Times y ha estado en todas las listas de los mejores libros del año 2014. Además, ha sido finalista al National Book Award y nominada al Women’s fiction Prize. Criada en Berkeley, California, July reside actualmente en Los Ángeles.

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