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Miranda July may be a film director, performance artist, sculptor and designer — but she is no novelist

In a review of The First Bad Man by Miranda July Robert Collins enters a surreal world of sex and love and loneliness

28 March 2015

9:00 AM

28 March 2015

9:00 AM

The First Bad Man Miranda July

Canongate, pp.288, £14.99, ISBN: 9781782116721

Miranda July is a funny and brilliant film director, performance artist, sculptor and smartphone app designer. In 2005, she won the Best First Feature award at Cannes for her debut film, Me and You and Everyone We Know. Two years later, she picked up the Frank O’Connor short story award for her debut collection No One Belongs Here More Than You.

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