The First Bad Man: A Novel
- Author: Miranda July
- Narrator: Miranda July
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Duration: 8:06:54
Synopsis
The instant New York Times bestseller is “astonishing…In one novel, Miranda July tells us more about our universal need to be loved, and our ability to love and be loved, than most earthbound authors will in a lifetime” (Vanity Fair).
In The First Bad Man, Miranda July tells the story of Cheryl, a vulnerable, uptight woman in her early forties who lives alone, with a perpetual lump in her throat, unable to cry. Cheryl is haunted by a baby boy she met when she was six; she also believes she has a profound connection with Phillip, a philandering board member at Open Palm, the women’s self-defense studio where she has worked for twenty years.
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 teaches Cheryl what it means to love and be loved and, inadvertently, provides the solace of a lifetime.
“Brilliant, hilarious, irreverent, piercing—The First Bad Man powers past sexual boundaries and gender identification into the surprising galaxy of primal connection” (O, The Oprah Magazine).
This is a spectacularly original, unsettling, accomplished, and moving first novel with a tender and beguiling happy ending.
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FirstBadMan 01 Title
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FirstBadMan 02 Ch1
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FirstBadMan 03 Ch2
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FirstBadMan 04 Ch3
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FirstBadMan 05 Ch4
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FirstBadMan 06 Ch5
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FirstBadMan 07 Ch6
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FirstBadMan 08 Ch7
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FirstBadMan 09 Ch8
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FirstBadMan 10 Ch9
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FirstBadMan 11 Ch10
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FirstBadMan 12 Ch11
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FirstBadMan 13 Ch12
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FirstBadMan 14 Ch13
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FirstBadMan 15 Ch14
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FirstBadMan 16 Ch15
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FirstBadMan 17 Epilogue
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FirstBadMan 18 Credits
Duration: 01min