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All Fours

By: Miranda July
Narrated by: Miranda July
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A 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR BBC R4 OPEN BOOK, THE OBSERVER, GQ, GRAZIA, HERO, I-D, NYLON

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.

©2024 Miranda July (P)2024 Canongate Books Coming of Age Literary Fiction Heartfelt Inspiring

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"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)

"All Fours is profound and bawdy and deeply human, a brilliant work of art from a completely blown open and fearless mind." (EMMA CLINE)

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So honest and original

I am so glad this book exists! Its honesty is so refreshing I want to hug Miranda for having the guts to strip away all the layers we hide behind. An amazing book!

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Fully whackadoodle

Whilst there were a number of quotes and series of dialogue about perimenopause and menopause that really struck me, this is a woman completely unhinged.

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A profoundly different take on aging as a woman

Miranda July has written something so moving and human and exceptional with All Fours that I feel a little bereft reaching the end.
As a woman of a similar age, it’s refreshing to read a tale about the midpoint of a woman’s life that is positive and uncertain yet hopeful.
I couldn’t put it down.

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Thought provoking - in a good way.

It took me a chapter to get used to the author’s flat sounding voice, but surprisingly, I soon grew quite fond of it. Well worth a read.

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Comic inquest!

This is exquisitely read by MJ and coats the bitter gritty pill of dawning menopause in a sweet comic overlay. It is a courageous investigation of non monogamous non conformational open relationships and a shameless celebration of love.

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Never read anything like it

Amazing! Shocking at times, but also giving voice to thoughts I had no idea other women experienced!

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Hedonism at its highest

This unique story is confronting & highly entertaining. If you enjoy immersing yourself in hedonism, this is the book for you.
I love listening to books read by the author & Miranda July really brought it.
Five stars 🌟

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honesty, originality, dramatic intensity without histrionics.

extraordinary sensivity making the novel's rare, specialised content readily appreciable to the reader. the story is mesmerising at first encounter, then memorable afterwards.

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July’s voice makes this a dream

Beautiful, elegant reading by the author herself. Such a sassy, deep, emotional joy and sadness of a sexually-charged woman nearing her fifties.

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Where is your life taking you

An original story about a 45 yrold who takes risks to find her true self

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