Description
Title: Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, A: Bailey Women’s Prize for Fiction 2014
Author: MCBRIDE EIMEAR
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 23/10/2013
Imprint: TEXT PUBLISHERS
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
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.
ISBN: 9781922182234
Dimension: 198mm X 128mm
Pages: 240
Edition: 01