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A GIRL IS A HALF-FORMED THING
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| By: |
Eimear McBride |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£7.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571319661 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571319664 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
17 April, 2014 |
| Edition: |
Export - International ed |
| 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: |
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 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
Short-listed for Folio Prize 2014 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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