A girl is a half-formed thing /
By: McBride, Eimear [author.].
Series: Goldsmiths Prize ; Bailey's Women's Prize for fiction. Publisher: London : Faber & Faber, 2014Description: 205 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780571317165.Subject(s): English fiction -- 21st century
| English fiction -- Irish authorsDDC classification: 823.92 Awards: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014 and Goldsmiths Prize for Fiction 2013.Summary: Eimear McBride's debut novel tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother after a tumour leaves him severely brain-damaged. 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 sensual urges 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.
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Eimear McBride's debut novel tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother after a tumour leaves him severely brain-damaged. 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 sensual urges 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.
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014 and Goldsmiths Prize for Fiction 2013.