A Girl is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear Mcbride
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE WINNER OF THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES' '25 BEST NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY' Eimear McBride's debut tells, with astonishing insight and in brutal detail, the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour. Not so much a stream of consciousness, as an unconscious railing against a life that makes little sense, and a shocking and intimate insight into the thoughts, feelings and chaotic sexuality of a vulnerable and isolated protagonist, to read A Girl is A Half-Formed Thing is to plunge inside its narrator's head, experiencing her world first-hand. This isn't always comfortable - but it is always a revelation.
Eimear McBride is the author of two novels: The Lesser Bohemians (James Tait Black Memorial Prize) and A Girl is a Half-formed Thing (Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction, Irish Novel of the Year, the Goldsmiths Prize, and others). She was the inaugural creative fellow at the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading and occasionally writes for the Guardian, TLS, New Statesman and the Irish Times.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571319664 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571319661 |
| Title | A Girl is a Half-formed Thing |
| Author | Eimear Mcbride |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2014-04-17 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Prizes | Winner of Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014, Winner of Desmond Elliott Prize 2014, Winner of Goldsmiths Prize 2013, Short-listed for Los Angeles Times Book Prizes: Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction 2015, Short-listed for Folio Prize 2014 |
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