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All Fours

By: Miranda July
Narrated by: Miranda July
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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.

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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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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.

Comic inquest!

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

Never read anything like it

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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 🌟

Hedonism at its highest

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

honesty, originality, dramatic intensity without histrionics.

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

July’s voice makes this a dream

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