The first bad man : a novel
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- ISBN: 9781439172605
- ISBN: 1439172609
- ISBN: 9781439172568
- ISBN: 1439172560
- ISBN: 9781439172575
- ISBN: 1439172579
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource. - Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2015.
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Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Middle-aged women -- Fiction Man-woman relationships -- Fiction FICTION / Literary FICTION / Contemporary Women FICTION / Humorous Man-woman relationships Middle-aged women |
Genre: | Fiction. Electronic books. Electronic books. |
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Summary:
"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"--