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Description edit
In the summer of 2009 Miranda July was struggling to write her second screenplay, The Future , when she began to obsessively read the PennySaver classified ads. The iconic Los Angeles newsprint booklet served a computerless demographic—a quickly disappearing group, but one rife with... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Miranda July: Author and narrator.
Quotes edit
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“I"m not especially terrific with numbers, so it was as if he'd just thrown some confetti in the air and called it words.”
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“Asking a question was like merging onto the freeway - I had to accelerate and jump into one of his pauses.”
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“Ron was exactly the kind of man you spend your whole life being careful not to end up in the apartment of.”
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“To keep from crying, I had to do the trick where you contract your butt into a tiny fist and mentally repeat the words fuckyoufuckyoufuckyou.”
Miranda July
First Sentence edit
I slept at my boyfriend's house every night for the first two years we dated, but I didn't move a single piece of my clothing, a single sock or pair of underwear, over to his place.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Miranda July (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: McSweeney's
Country: USA
Publication Date: November 15, 2011
ISBN: 9781936365012
Page Count: 224
Publisher: McSweeney's
Country: USA
Publication Date: November 15, 2011
ISBN: 9781936365012
Page Count: 224
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 791
Subjects edit
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