A Girl is a Half-formed Thing

Name: A Girl is a Half-formed Thing
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ISBN: 9781922182234

Eimear McBride

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English

Text Publishing Company
21 October 2013

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Winner, Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, United Kingdom, 2014

Winner, Goldsmiths Prize, United Kingdom, 2013

Winner, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, Ireland, 2014

Winner, Desmond Elliott Prize, United Kingdom, 2014

Shortlisted, Folio Prize, 2014

Longlisted, Guardian First Book Award, United Kingdom, 2013

This incredible debut novel 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. It is a book you will never forget.

By: Eimear McBride
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 260g
ISBN: 9781922182234
ISBN 10: 1922182230
Publication Date: 21 October 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for A Girl is a Half-formed Thing

'Unforgettable...Eimear McBride is a writer of remarkable power and originality.' Times Literary Supplement 'Eimear McBride's ferociously intense and stylistically challenging account of a young girl's coming-of-age in rural Ireland is an astonishing literary debut...bracingly alive with sardonic humour and brilliantly realised set-pieces...A remarkable achievement.' Irish Independent 'Beautifully-produced...immensely impressive.' Guardian 'She is definitely a genius...Truth-spilling, uncompromising and brilliant prose...An instant classic.' -- Anne Enright Guardian 'Remarkable, harshly satisfying first novel.' London Review of Books 'The author's use of language is so unique, so instantly inimitable that McBridean deserves to be an adjective...The writing has its forebears. Virginia Woolf springs to mind in its interiority, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett in its expression of fragmented consciousness.' New Humanist 'A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing is a familiar Irish tale told in transfigured Irish style, a lyrical prose-poem on horror and human endurance that is - astonishingly - neither horrific nor hard to read.' Monthly