From the acclaimed author of The First Bad Man comes a wry, intimate portrait of female reinvention, as a 45-year-old woman begins a new life in a nondescript American motel.
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 9781838853440
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 540 g
Dimensions: 242 x 156 x 30 mm
Edition: Main
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
Wild and outrageous, provocative and entirely unpredictable - DAVID NICHOLLS
Essential . . . A book of vast scope, taking in men and women, the mind and the body, and society and solitude - Guardian
July comes into her own [and] brings a new perspective . . . A menopause novel that's never boring - Sunday Times
Voyeuristic and exploratory . . . Miranda July compels us with her provocations - Times Literary Supplement
Bonkers and brilliant . . . amazing - LOUIS THEROUX
ALL FOURS washed over me like a wonderful strange dream.
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All Fours by Miranda July is a novel about going on a journey of discovery and getting to know yourself when you’re a fully grown adult with people who depend on you.
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