No One Belongs Here More Than You: Miranda July

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THE BESTSELLING, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED WINNER OF THE 2007 FRANK O'CONNOR INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD 'Blisteringly good' Guardian In her remarkable stories of seemingly ordinary people living extraordinary lives, Miranda July reveals how a single moment can change everything. Whether writing about a middle-aged woman's obsession with Prince William or an aging bachelor who has never been in love, the result is startling, tender and sexy by turns. One of the most acclaimed and successful short-story collections, No One Belongs Here More Than You confirms Miranda July as a spectacularly original, iconic and important voice today.

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THE BESTSELLING, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED WINNER OF THE 2007 FRANK O'CONNOR INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD 'Blisteringly good' Guardian In her remarkable stories of seemingly ordinary people living extraordinary lives, Miranda July reveals how a single moment can change everything. Whether writing about a middle-aged woman's obsession with Prince William or an aging bachelor who has never been in love, the result is startling, tender and sexy by turns. One of the most acclaimed and successful short-story collections, No One Belongs Here More Than You confirms Miranda July as a spectacularly original, iconic and important voice today.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: Main - Canons Edition
Publisher: Canongate Canons
Published: 05 Feb 2015
ISBN 10: 178211629X
ISBN 13: 9781782116295
Book Overview: This bestselling, critically acclaimed short story collection is being canonised

Media Reviews

Blisteringly good * * Guardian * *
There's beauty and tenderness here as well as great wit and, like the best stories, a delicious sense of the unexpected * * Metro * *
A stunning collection ... from a wonderfully quirky and highly original writer * * Venue * *
July's short fiction is quirky and self-consciously postmodern in style ... The best of her stories adds a depth of emotional truth which can persuade you to believe in her most oddball worlds. -- Helen Chappell * * Tribune * *
Surprising, amusing and touching ... they'll fill you with a renewed sense of wonder at the world * * Venue * *
Magically oddball ... rarely has such a thing been so entertaining * * Time Out * *
July's inventive tales swing from laugh-out-loud funny to heart-clenchingly sad * * Daily Telegraph * *
These stories are incredibly charming, beautifully written, frequently laugh-out-loud funny, and even, a dozen or so times, profound -- DAVE EGGERS
Astonishingly good ... mordantly funny * * Vogue * *
Intimate, original and more than a little strange, these are tales about people who are baffled and often overwhelmed by life. * * Daily Mail * *
Miranda July's is a beautiful, odd, original voice - seductive, sometimes erotic, and a little creepy too -- DAVID BYRNE
Wonderful * * Elle * *
The stories have a frank, direct tone that makes their loopiness charming ... July delights in revealing the unseen awkwardness of the everyday, and this collection is both resonant and complex * * Financial Times * *
July's writing has a whimsical, dreamlike quality ... she has an understanding of human truths and an extraordinary honesty about our wish for acceptance * * Guardian * *
Charming and funny * * Daily Telegraph * *
Exquisite * * LA Times * *
July's stories startle us at every turn, sometimes by their sexual frankness, sometimes by passages of impossibly lush eloquence ... and very often by their inventiveness * * San Francisco Chronicle * *
Who will Miranda July's work appeal to? To borrow the name of her lovely first film, Me and You and Everyone We Know * * Entertainment Weekly * *
Moving ... this collection features characters laughing, crying and thinking. Read the stories and you'll do the same * * i-D * *
A considered and engaging new talent * * Spectator * *

Author Bio

Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist and writer. She wrote, directed and starred in The Future (2011) and Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), which won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Camera d'Or. July's fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper's and The New Yorker. Her collection No One Belongs Here More Than You (2007) won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in twenty-three countries. She is also the author of the nonfictional It Chooses You (2011) and her first novel, The First Bad Man, was published in 2015. In 2000 July created the participatory website Learning to Love You More with the artist Harrel Fletcher, and a companion book was published in 2007; the work is now in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She designed Eleven Heavy Things, an interactive sculpture garden, for the 2009 Venice Biennale, and in 2013 more than a hundred thousand people subscribed to her e-mail based artwork We Think Alone. This autumn she debuts the audience-participatory performance, New Society, and launches Somebody, a messaging service created with support from Miu Miu. Raised in Berkeley, California, July lives in Los Angeles. www.mirandajuly.com