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The First Bad Man

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Cheryl Glickman, who works at a women's self-defence nonprofit and believes in romances that span centuries, sees her carefully ordered life upended when her bosses' twenty-year-old daughter, Clee, moves in. Clee's selfish and cruel nature forces Cheryl to confront reality, ultimately leading her to the love of a lifetime. Miranda July's debut novel is tender, gripping, and slyly hilarious, blending wild sexual fantasies with fierce maternal love.
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The New York Times Bestseller

The "brilliant, hilarious, irreverent, piercing" (O, The Oprah Magazine) debut novel from Miranda July, acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and author of All Fours, a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction.

Cheryl Glickman believes in romances that span centuries and a soul that migrates between babies. She works at a women's self-defence nonprofit and lives alone. When her bosses ask if their twenty-year-old daughter, Clee, can move into her house for a while, Cheryl's eccentrically ordered world explodes. And yet it is Clee—the selfish, cruel blonde bombshell—who bullies Cheryl into reality and, unexpectedly, leads her to the love of a lifetime.

Tender, gripping, slyly hilarious, infused with raging sexual fantasies 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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781439172575

Publisher: Scribner Book Company

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 September 2015

Imprint: Scribner Book Company

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 272g

Pages: 304

About the Author

Miranda July is a writer, filmmaker, and artist. Her debut novel, The First Bad Man, was an instant New York Times bestseller, and her collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in twenty-three countries. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper's, and The New Yorker, and she is also the author of the novel All Fours, a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction. In 2025 she was named one of the 100 most influential people by Time and received a Guggenheim Fellowship. July lives in Los Angeles.

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