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9780571325795 English 0571325793 The dazzling, fearless debut novel that the "New York Times" hails as "a future classic" In scathing, furious, unforgettable prose, Eimear McBride tells the story of a young girl's devastating adolescence as she and her brother, who suffers from a brain tumor, struggle for a semblance of normalcy in the shadow of sexual abuse, denial, and chaos at home. Plunging readers inside the psyche of a girl isolated by her own dangerously confusing sexuality, pervading guilt, and unrelenting trauma, McBride's writing carries echoes of Joyce, O'Brien, and Woolf. "A Girl is a Half-formed Thing" is a revelatory work of fiction, a novel that instantly takes its place in the canon., Winner of numerous literary awards including the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and the Goldsmiths Prize, Eimear McBride's debut novel "A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing" plunges us into the psyche of a girl with breathtaking fury and intimacy. Adapted for the stage by Annie Ryan for The Corn Exchange, Eimear McBride's "A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing" premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival 2014.
9780571325795 English 0571325793 The dazzling, fearless debut novel that the "New York Times" hails as "a future classic" In scathing, furious, unforgettable prose, Eimear McBride tells the story of a young girl's devastating adolescence as she and her brother, who suffers from a brain tumor, struggle for a semblance of normalcy in the shadow of sexual abuse, denial, and chaos at home. Plunging readers inside the psyche of a girl isolated by her own dangerously confusing sexuality, pervading guilt, and unrelenting trauma, McBride's writing carries echoes of Joyce, O'Brien, and Woolf. "A Girl is a Half-formed Thing" is a revelatory work of fiction, a novel that instantly takes its place in the canon., Winner of numerous literary awards including the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and the Goldsmiths Prize, Eimear McBride's debut novel "A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing" plunges us into the psyche of a girl with breathtaking fury and intimacy. Adapted for the stage by Annie Ryan for The Corn Exchange, Eimear McBride's "A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing" premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival 2014.