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ISBN: 9781922182234
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2013
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Pages: 240
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Winner, Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, United Kingdom, 2014 Winner, Goldsmiths Prize, United Kingdom, 2013 Winner, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, Ireland, 2014 Winner, Desmond Elliott Prize, United Kingdom, 2014 Shortlisted, Folio Prize, 2014 Longlisted, Guardian First Book Award, United Kingdom, 2013 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.
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ISBN: 9781922182234
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2013
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Pages: 240
Description:
Winner, Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, United Kingdom, 2014 Winner, Goldsmiths Prize, United Kingdom, 2013 Winner, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, Ireland, 2014 Winner, Desmond Elliott Prize, United Kingdom, 2014 Shortlisted, Folio Prize, 2014 Longlisted, Guardian First Book Award, United Kingdom, 2013 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.
This product has FREE shipping however combined shipping for other products is not available with this item. Please allow up to 10 days for shipping.
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