A Girl is a Half-formed Thing

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  • Dylan Thomas Prize Nominee (2014)
  • Desmond Elliott Prize (2014)
  • Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (2013)
  • Women's Prize for Fiction (2014)
  • Specsavers National Book Award Nominee for International Author of the Year (2014)
  • Goldsmiths Prize (2013)
  • Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award (2014)
  • Rathbones Folio Prize Nominee (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

A Girl is a Half-formed Thing

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ISBN: 9780571319664
Authors: Eimear McBride
Publisher: faber and faber uk
Date of Publication: 2014-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Feminism
Goodreads rating: 3.5
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Description

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.
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  • Goldsmiths Prize (2013)
  • Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award (2014)
  • Rathbones Folio Prize Nominee (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.