The First Bad Man
  • Published:
    Jan-2015 (Hardcover)
    Jan-2015 (Paperback)
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  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
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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 -- that 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 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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    • Jan-2015
    • Simon & Schuster
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1476794723
    • ISBN13: 9781476794723
    •  
    • Jul-2015
    • Canongate Books Ltd
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1782115072
    • ISBN13: 9781782115076
    •  
    • Sep-2015
    • Scribner
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1439172579
    • ISBN13: 9781439172575
    • First Edition
    • Jan-2015
    • Scribner
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1439172560
    • ISBN13: 9781439172568
    •  
    • Jan-2015
    • Canongate Books
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1782115056
    • ISBN13: 9781782115052
    •  
    • Jan-2015
    • Scribner
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1439172609
    • ISBN13: 9781439172605
    •  
    • Jan-2015
    • Simon & Schuster Audio
    • Audible
    •  
    • Jan-2015
    • Simon & Schuster Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1442380705
    • ISBN13: 9781442380707
    •  
    • Jan-2015
    • Simon & Schuster Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1442380683
    • ISBN13: 9781442380684
    •  
    • Feb-2015
    • Canongate Books Ltd
    • Audible
    •  
    • Feb-2015
    • Canongate Books Ltd
    • Audible



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