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Synopsis
WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE
KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD
WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE
A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing is an unforgettable novel from a major new literary talent. Eimear McBride's award-winning debut novel tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour. It is a shocking and intimate insight into the thoughts, feelings and chaotic sexuality of a vulnerable and isolated protagonist. The author's spellbinding reading illuminates every nuance of the text with feeling and sympathy.
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Review
A virtuosic debut: subversive, passionate, and darkly alchemical. Read it and be changed. (Eleanor Catton)
Eimear McBride is that old fashioned thing, a genius, in that she writes truth-spilling, uncompromising and brilliant prose. (Anne Enright Guardian)
Ten pages in and all the bells start ringing. It explodes into your chest. (Caitlin Moran)
A life told from deep down inside, beautiful, harrowing, and ultimately rewarding the way only a brilliant work of literature can be. (Michael Chabon)
An instant classic account of Irish girlhood that has catapulted McBride into the front rank of modern fiction. (Observer)
Eimear McBride is a writer of remarkable power and originality. (David Collard Times Literary Supplement)
A remarkable, harshly satisfying first novel. (Adam Mars-Jones London Review of Books)
It is... a narrative to read aloud as the images shatter and explode. (Eileen Battersby Irish Times)
A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing pushes the boundaries of the novel form... The broken sentences are the narrator's experience of a brutal world she is attempting to negotiate in staggers and fragments... each beautiful phrase McBride writes goes straight to the gut. (Gaby Wood Telegraph)
This singular experiment of a novel, is turning into this year's sleeper hit. (Metro)
Book Description
The Winner of the 2014 Bailey's Prize for Fiction is available for the first time in audiobook, read by the author.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0571321550
- ISBN 13 9780571321551
- BindingAudio CD
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