Miranda July Boeken

Een irreverent sexy, teder, hilarisch en verrassend verhaal over een vrouw die haar leven op zijn kop zet. Een semi-bekende kunstenaar kondigt haar plan aan om van LA naar New York te rijden. Twintig minuten na het achterlaten van haar man en kind thuis, verlaat ze spontaan de snelweg, zoekt onderdak in een onopvallend motel en duikt in een tijdelijke heruitvinding die het begin blijkt te zijn van een geheel andere reis. Het tweede boek van Miranda July bevestigt de genialiteit van haar unieke benadering van fictie. Met July's scherpe stem, perfecte comic timing, onbevangen nieuwsgierigheid naar menselijke intimiteit en voelbaar plezier in het verleggen van grenzen, vertelt All Fours het verhaal van de zoektocht van een vrouw naar een nieuw soort vrijheid. Een mix van absurde entertainment en tedere heruitvinding van het seksuele, romantische en huishoudelijke leven van een vijfenvijftigjarige vrouwelijke kunstenaar, overstijgt All Fours verwachtingen terwijl het onze overtuigingen over het leven als vrouw onderzoekt.

In the summer of 2009, Miranda July was struggling to finish writing the screenplay for her much-anticipated second film. During her increasingly long lunch breaks, she began to obsessively read the "PennySaver," the iconic classifieds booklet that reached everywhere and seemed to come from nowhere. Who was the person selling the "Large leather Jacket, $10"? It seemed important to find out--or at least it was a great distraction from the screenplay. Accompanied by photographer Brigitte Sire, July crisscrossed Los Angeles to meet a random selection of "PennySaver" sellers, glimpsing thirteen surprisingly moving and profoundly specific realities, along the way shaping her film, and herself, in unexpected ways. Elegantly blending narrative, interviews, and photographs with July's off-kilter honesty and deadpan humor, this is a story of procrastination and inspiration, isolation and connection, and grabbing hold of the invisible world.

The creator and star of Me and You and Everyone We Know presents a collection of short works featuring profoundly sympathetic protagonists whose inherent sensitivities render them particularly vulnerable to unexpected events. 50,000 first printing.

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 peoples' babies. Cheryl is also obsessed with Phillip, a philandering board member at the women's self-defense nonprofit organisation where she works. She believes they've been making love for many lifetimes, though they have yet to consummate it in this one. When Cheryl's bosses ask if their twenty-one-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 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.

Boss By: L.D. Miranda A battered woman escaping from the clutches of an abusive marriage. A young Mob boss who isn’t interested in the complications of love. The two converge and find a new strength and comfort in each other neither knew they possessed. She is much stronger than she thought, but will she be able to finally put her past behind her? He may have finally met his match in a woman, but will he embrace the possibility of love and a future with her? Will they both survive? Find out in Boss, the first installment in the steamy, action-packed, dark romance series by L.D. Miranda