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No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Scribner
Category: EBooks
List Price: $17.99
Buy New: $9.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 2254
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
ASIN: B000QCSA0O
Publication Date: May 15, 2007
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Product Description
Award-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection. In these stories, July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter, a misunderstanding, a shy revelation can reconfigure the world. Her characters engage awkwardly -- they are sometimes too remote, sometimes too intimate. With great compassion and generosity, July reveals their idiosyncrasies and the odd logic and longing that govern their lives. No One Belongs Here More Than You is a stunning debut, the work of a writer with a spectacularly original and compelling voice.
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 Desperately delightful. September 25, 2008
July's short fiction is bubbling over with desperate ecstasy - sometimes shocking (and shockingly mundane), each piece taps into the lonely core at the center of each of us. Although the charge that most of her characters are similar is true, this is hardly a negative; it is the product of her touching upon the raw spirit of the human condition. Her voice is simultaneously distinct and familiar - with her short fiction, as with her film and other works, the extraordinary becomes commonplace, and the daily minutiae becomes miraculous.
YOU ROCK MIRANDA JULY!!!! August 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hello,
I only heard about Miranda July when I was in a favorite neighborhood bookstore--Pegasus books--in Berkeley. I read through some of the book and then rented the movie...I loved it. I think it is great that Ms. July puts herself out there as an artist, by doing the footwork and being proactive in getting her name known. I don't think she is smug or arrogant as one reviewer said, but that is just one person's opinion, right. I love short stories and I especially like short stories that are not the same mainstream, typical stories.
I think it is great that Ms. July was and is published in great magazines, as any great writer should be, when they now what they are doing and she is a true artist in her work.
Thanks for you work, love it.
 The only thing I liked about this book is the cover art. August 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I picked this book up on a trip overseas, made it through three of the short stories, and then slipped it in the seat pocket in front of me, never intending to touch it again. If you'd like to read something that makes you want to slit your wrists, this is the book. The writing is fine, but the characters and stories are disturbing and annoying and not in any way relatable. I'm all for escapism, but this is just grim and pointless. Do. Not. Bother.
after a couple stories August 16, 2008
at first you arent quite sure what to make of these desperate characters. but then i personally began to understand how i and everyone else relates to them in some sort of way. the first couple of stories start the book off a little slow, but maybe its best that way because the finale seemed to be quite nice and left me wanting more books by this young lady.
i also was not head over heels for the movie, i did like it, but not head over heels. so even if the movie wasnt tops for you, consider reading this book.
 Eh August 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think at times she tries too hard to be edgy or odd, but overall an entertaining book. The last story was the best.
(Also, beware that the book comes in four different colors, and if you order from Amazon you don't get to choose which you receive. The picture showed me I was getting yellow, but pink showed up. Yuck.)
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