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A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing

Eimear McBride

3.48/5 (9560 ratings)

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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. It is a book you will never forget.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 205 pages

Publication:: 2013

Publisher:: Galley Beggar Press

Edition:: Second Printing

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0957185324

ISBN13:: 9780957185326

kindle Asin:: B00LKBTYC8

A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing

Eimear McBride

3.48/5 (9560 ratings)

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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. It is a book you will never forget.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 205 pages

Publication:: 2013

Publisher:: Galley Beggar Press

Edition:: Second Printing

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0957185324

ISBN13:: 9780957185326

kindle Asin:: B00LKBTYC8

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