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A GIRL IS A HALF-FORMED THING
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| By: |
Eimear McBride |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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£7.29 |
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£2.70 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571317162 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571317165 |
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| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
10 April, 2014 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
Tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour. |
| Synopsis: |
This is the winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Kerry Group Irish Novel of the year award. It is the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize. 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. Touching on everything from family violence to sexuality and the personal struggle to remain intact in times of intense trauma, McBride writes with singular intensity, acute sensitivity and mordant wit. A Girl is a Half-formed Thing is moving, funny - and alarming. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Desmond Elliott Prize 2014
Winner of Goldsmiths Prize 2013
Short-listed for Los Angeles Times Book Prizes: Art Seidenbaum Award for
Short-listed for Folio Prize 2014
Short-listed for Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014 |
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