A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
A Novel
The dazzling, fearless debut novel that won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the book 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.
$20.50
November 11, 2014
EIMEAR MCBRIDE grew up in the west of Ireland and trained at Drama Centre London before turning her attention to writing novels. Her books A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, The Lesser Bohemians, and Strange Hotel have won numerous awards respectively, including the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, The Goldsmiths Prize, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In a 2018 Times Literary Supplement poll of 200 critics, Eimear was named one of the ten best British and Irish novelists writing today. Alongside writing novels, Eimear is an active screenwriter. Eimear has recently directed a short film titled A VERY SHORT FILM ABOUT LONGING, starring Joe Alwyn.
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