A Girl is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear Mcbride
ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES' '25 BEST NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY' WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE Eimear McBride's award-winning debut novel tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour. It is 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 at 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 | 9780571317165 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571317162 |
| Title | A Girl is a Half-formed Thing |
| Author | Eimear Mcbride |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2014-04-10 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Prizes | 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, Short-listed for Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014 |
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