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Description

1. 276 pages; 22 cm

Summary

1. "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"--

Subject

1. Middle-aged women > Fiction
2. Man-woman relationships > Fiction
3. FICTION / Literary
4. FICTION / Contemporary Women
5. FICTION / Humorous

Call number

1. JFD 15-554

Author

1. July, Miranda, 1974-

Title

1. The first bad man : a novel / by Miranda July.

Publisher

1. New York : Scribner, 2015.

Edition

1. First Scribner hardcover edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

LCCN

1. 2014008520

ISBN

1. 9781439172568
2. 1439172560

Research call number

1. JFD 15-554