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Hardback 336 Pages
Published: 16/05/2024
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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.  

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.

Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 9781838853440
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 540 g
Dimensions: 242 x 156 x 30 mm
Edition: Main


MEDIA REVIEWS

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

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“MIRANDA!!!! WOW!!”

ALL FOURS washed over me like a wonderful strange dream.

you think for a minute that this is a book about a man and for that hot minute it is beautifully about a man. but slowly and very surely it becomes about the... More

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“Miranda July is BACK!”

I remember being twenty years old and reading a story or two from Miranda July's debut collection No-One Belongs Here More Than You on my lunch break. Putting the book down felt like waking from a dream, and I... More

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Lauren

“It’s hard to be knocked down when you’re on…”

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.

A successful, semi-famous artist tells her... More

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