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Amazon.com: All Fours: A Novel (Audible Audio Edition): Miranda July, Miranda July, Penguin Audio: Audible Books & Originals
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and surprising novel about a woman upending her life
“A frank novel about a midlife awakening, which is funnier and more boldly human than you ever quite expect . . . nothing short of riveting.”—Vogue
“All Fours has spurred a whisper network of women fantasizing about desire and freedom. . . . It’s the talk of every group text.”—The New York Times
“All Fours possessed me. I picked it up and neglected my life until the last page, and then I started begging every woman I know to read it as soon as possible.”—The Cut
“A novel that presses into that tender bruise about the anxiety of aging, of what it means to have a female body that is aging, and wanting the freedom to live a fuller life . . . Deeply funny and achingly true.”—LA Times
“July’s novel is hot and weird and captivating and one of the most entertaining, deranged, and moving depictions of lust and romantic mania I’ve ever read.”—New York Magazine
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, checks into a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in 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 forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation 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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Amazon.com: All Fours: A Novel (Audible Audio Edition): Miranda July, Miranda July, Penguin Audio: Audible Books & Originals
Mopsquatch –
Bought the book because it was written about in NYT as a great perimenopause novel. The writing is beautiful, I can admit. However, I had a lot of difficulty rooting for the main character. I didn’t like the narrator and found her to be incredibly immature, sex-obsessed, impulsive, and hyper-privileged. Also, I’m not a prude but some of the sex scenes were pretty creepy. Her best friend Jordi is the best part of the book in my opinion.
While I think that menopause transition is fascinating, it didn’t feel like this novel was for me. I don’t really feel like I came away with any insights beyond ‘follow your instincts, blow up your life, and the make art about it.’ It seems July was writing about her experiences, but it was difficult for me to relate to.
Caitlin –
Thirst quenching. I couldn’t put it down. I love the way she writes and the way her mind works. Read it!
Steven Skolnik –
This book was well written and it made me think deeply, which in my opinion are defining features of a really good book! But, as a 58 year-old mother of two who gave up a career to stay home with my now successful kids (relationship and career-wise), I’m sensitive to the idea of prioritizing my own self discovery when a child is involved. It would make my kids pretty insecure if I was still groping for adolescent experiences at 45 years old. Her kid was definitely secondary to her willful and frenzied attempt to find out more about her own sexuality. I get it, it’s a time of hormonal change and there’s a natural desperation to relive all the experiences you never had or may never have again. (Your eggs ARE dying, after all…). I’m glad she figures out her sex stuff, though, that’s so so important. But at the end of the book, not much mention of how her child is doing? Were they/them okay and thriving? I certainly hope the corners were all working out. So I took a star to give to her little kid. Fly to the moon.
Max –
It’s not just well written, the author is super strong in social observations. It happens to be super funny too. Bravo!
Nite Ize Customer Service –
This book was a suggestion to me by another popular book store company based on my past book purchases. I purchased this book on Kindle for my vacation read. Being 48 and a mom of three, I thought I might be able to relate to the main character and the description was interesting, but I certainly can not relate to this character. Initially, I was put off by the raunchy sexual commentary. I did not find it sexy, I found it gross. I found this main character to be incredibly frivolous and selfish, not to mention a bit idiotic. She made bad decision after bad decision and I just could not understand the point. I just really found myself disgusted with her and could not finish the book. I regret the purchase.
Stacey Thornberry –
This book was so odd. The main character was not likeable, but I could not put it down. The story so unique that I was compelled to keep reading. It is nice to see a main character that discusses menopause.
Michael C. Hill –
Best work of fiction I have read in over a decade… Moved me,made me laugh out loud and cry in public. Miranda July is a national treasure( like someone else wrote on the flap) Her mind, none like it. Literary+ extraordinary. English majors will float for weeks. Skill, this is’ so pretty, turn of phrase masterful.
Amy B –
A mental buffet on marriage, aging, menopause, autonomy, authenticity and self. Revelatory, funny, startlingly honest. It’s not just the sex (although it very much IS the sex). My initial concern that the protagonist (author?) didn’t seem to understand construction profit margins dissipated (jk); what she does understand is far more important. This book is like a smile from a stranger who sees you and…gets it.
Pat B. –
This is an interesting book. First, it is sometimes over the top. Second, it explores the role of sex in a middle-aged woman’s idea of herself as she approaches menopause and the arrangements she makes to properly raise her non-binary child and to allow her husband the freedom she is pursuing. Although a young man is the catalyst of her sexual desires, she acts them out with women. What does that say?
Interesting questions arise from reading this book.
bridget –
I know it is a best seller and ticking the trending boxes: menopause, lesbian sex, sex of women getting older, but what is the underlaying moral? Hormon patches? Frustration? Desperate running around looking for a quick fix? I quote Merlin Sheldrake: it is easy to hide in a room built from quick answers.
Amazon Kunde –
Een echt boek voor dit seizoen
caroline g –
Incredible book
Nicholas Hayward –
One of the most brilliant books I have read for years. I finished it and started reading it over again at the beginning, something I’ve never done before.
It resonates hugely with me in its depiction of desire, sex, marriage. Somehow, and this possibly sounds crazy, it occupies the niche overlap between The Baron in the Trees by Calvino, Plath’s The Bell Jar and somehow in its focus on the inner space of body in a room Kafka’s Metamorphosis. It is also immensely laugh-out-loud funny.
The narrator is immensely engaging (at least, I find her so). She starts and immediately abandons a roadtrip across the USA, only getting as far as the suburbs of the city, LA, in which she lives, ensconces herself in a motel room which she spends all her money on doing up to a level of luxe opulence and which she uses as a place in which she feels she can have sex with a man she meets and falls deeply in love with (if she is in love with him – I feel she is). The descriptions of them together in the motel room are the most brilliant writing I have read about sexual desire for years, rich, funny, compelling, sexy, comic, strange and ironic. Sex is never just about sex and she explores this superbly, the way other presences, people, memories flood in unstoppably. And I found it deeply romantic because underneath it all there is a sense of the love she feels and is chasing and refracting for those closest to her, particularly her child.
I like novels where decisions which seem entirely normal and reasonable at the time work cumulatively to take us into the strangest, least familiar places, so you look back and wonder How on earth did I get here? This is that kind of novel where the familiar is the portal to the strange.
It’s been marketed and reviewed as a novel about the menopause or peri-menopause, but for me it is much, much more than this. By the end it is asking the biggest questions, how to live, how we love, how can we survive the compromised realities we are embedded in, what life is ‘for’.
But actually it’s just the most superb, funniest novel about a woman living in the fictive space she has created – that motel room – where she can achieve insights into her sexuality and her desire for sex which are unavailable in the normalised reality outside the room.