The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear Mcbride
AN IRISH TIMES TOP 100 BEST IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 'It broke my heart several times over.' Evening Standard 'Dazzling.' Times Literary Supplement 'Extraordinary.' New Statesman ' The life here radiates through the pages and illuminates ours.' Guardian The vibrant energy of 1990s London. A year of passion and discovery. The anxiety and intensity of new love. An eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in London to study drama and falls violently in love with an older actor. While she is naive and thrilled by life in the big city, he is haunted by demons. The clamorous relationship that ensues risks undoing them both. At once epic and exquisitely intimate, The Lesser Bohemians is a celebration of the dark and the light in love.
Eimear McBride first novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing took nine years to find a publisher and subsequently received a number of awards, including the Women's Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize. Her second novel The Lesser Bohemians won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2017 she was awarded the inaugural Creative Fellowship of the Beckett Research Centre.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571327881 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571327885 |
| Title | The Lesser Bohemians |
| Author | Eimear Mcbride |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2017-05-04 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Encore Award 2017 |
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