About this title: Screenwriter, director, and star of the acclaimed film "Me and You and Everyone We Know," July brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection of stories.
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Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2008-05-06
ISBN-13:9780743299411ISBN:0743299418
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Date Published: 2008-05-06
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Date Published: 2008
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Date Published: 2008-05-06
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Publisher: CANONGATE BOOKS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781847671165ISBN:1847671160
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. A collection of stories of seemingly ordinary people living extraordinary lives. it reveals how a single moment can change everything. (Paperback) read more
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Date Published: 2008
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Date Published: 5/6/2008
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2008-05-06
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Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2008-05-06
ISBN-13:9780743299411ISBN:0743299418
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"These stories were beautiful. July has a way of writing about adult topics with a five-year-old's blunt expression. But unlike the way children can't process their experience, July has a way of using an innocent filter to express things that are not all that innocent.
The stories were crisp and original. They crackled with every emotional facet touched.
July uses themes of homosexuality, childlike playfulness, loneliness and longing for connection in this conflux of tales."
"One of the worst collections I've ever finished. I bought this one in hardcover when it first came out and was excited to read it because it had great buzz and won the Frank O'Connor prize. Sadly, I struggled through every story. Perhaps I will enjoy this more on some future reread; and I'm even willing to concede that I might be tone-deaf to this author at this time, but I suspect she was given a free pass on her fiction because of her success as a filmmaker. The cover blurbs trumpet her originality; but after just rereading Amy Hempel's 1985 collection Reasons to Live (she provided one of the cover blurbs), that still seems more original than July's No One Belongs Here More Than You.
The strength of this collection is the narrative voice, which does have snap and a nice turn of phrase that might be unique. The down side of that voice is that it is monologic: a neurotic speed rap (meth or other psychotropic drug) that wears thin by the end of the first story and then repeats itself for another 180 pages. It seems to me that July, as author, has fallen in love with listening to that voice (herself?) talk.
What makes this a terrible collection to my sensibility is the lack of love for her characters and especially the narrators. I'm all for exposing human weaknesses and revealing character's dark sides, but the condescension July exhibits towards her characters in this collection just had me continuously wanting to stop reading. Some may claim that she's rendering irony as Saunders (another blurber on the book's cover) does; which is the current defense against any pejorative criticism. I don't buy that defense. Saunders' irony is obvious and part of his shtick. July's voice is trying too hard to be hip, but ends up tone deaf, and, being charitable, is inadvertently full of character assassinations."
"First, I should say that I only read three and two halves of the stories in this book. (The two halves were aborted attempts at making it through the entire book). Although I haven't seen Juno, from what I've gathered from the constant clips and previews, I think these stories are probably the literary equivalent. Ultra-hip, ultra-clever, and, uh, a little vapid. Might work for a movie, but not a collection of short stories.
Miranda July's performance art and film is amazing, and I feel lucky to have seen her work over the years I lived in Portland. Her stories, however, lack a bit of the tightrope tension of her films, in which her characters are often held above dark pits of loneliness and despair by a few meager strands of hope and creativity.
The only story I liked in here was "Something that Needs Nothing", a sad story of two best friends, one of whom is in love with the other, who move their naive and reckless lives to Portland, OR. Given that I like almost anything that is set in Portland, that might color this review, but I actually think that her sarcastic, dry voice works best in the mouth of a teenager, especially one that's just moved from the suburbs to the, er, city of Portland.
I would probably actually give this one star if it wasn't for that story, and that I really really like her performance art and films."
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