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A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing

By Eimear McBride

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A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing

By Eimear McBride

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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. A Girl is a Half-formed Thing is moving, funny - and alarming.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
205
Release Date:
2014-04-17
Publication Date:
2014-05-31
Publisher:
Faber And Faber Ltd.
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0571319661
ISBN13:
9780571319664
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
183 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
200 cm
Thickness:
29 cm
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