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Now in paperback, Eimear McBride's internationally praised debut is one of the most acclaimed novels in recent years; it is "subversive, passionate, and darkly alchemical. Read it and be changed" (Eleanor Catton). Eimear McBride's debut tells, with astonishing insight and in riveting detail, the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour, and her harrowing sexual awakening. 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, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing plunges inside its narrator's head, exposing her world firsthand. This isn't always comfortable--but it is always a revelation. Touching on everything from family violence to religion to addiction, 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.

About the Author :
Eimear McBride grew up in Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo and Castlebar, Co. Mayo, before moving to London age seventeen to study at The Drama Centre. A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing is her first novel.

Review :
"[W]ritten in a Joycean stream of consciousness with an Irish lilt, [McBride's] sentence fragments transmit the pervasive sense of urgency, of thoughts spinning faster than the tongue can speak...An unforgettable novel."--Publisher's Weekly, starred review "A life told from deep down inside, beautiful, harrowing, and ultimately rewarding the way only a brilliant work of literature can be."--Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay "A virtuosic debut: subversive, passionate, and darkly alchemical. Read it and be changed."--Eleanor Catton, author of The Luminaries "Eimear McBride is that old-fashioned thing, a genius...The adventurous reader will find that they have a real book on their hands, a live one, a book that is not like any other...[it] is an instant classic."--Anne Enright, author of The Gathering "This is a simply brilliant book...emotionally raw and at the same time technically astounding. McBride's prose is as haunting and moving as music, and the love story at the heart of the novel as true and wrenching as any in literature. I can't recommend it highly enough."--Elizabeth McCracken, author of An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781476789033
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publisher Imprint: Simon & Schuster
  • Height: 211 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1476789037
  • Publisher Date: 09 Jun 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 227 gr


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