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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.
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“The author’s intense, high-pressure performance of this ambitious book is its best possible version because the text is all voice, expressing half-formed thoughts and half-understood impulses in half-formed sentences, and it’s the confusion, anger, yearning, or grief behind the broken language that tells the story…Rich, original, and haunting, the performance wrenching. You won’t forget it. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“A life told from deep down inside, beautiful, harrowing, and ultimately rewarding the way only a brilliant work of literature can be.”
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“A virtuosic debut: subversive, passionate, and darkly alchemical. Read it and be changed.”
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“A page-turner and a slow burn at the same time.”
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“The novel is blazingly daring…[McBride’s] prose is a visceral throb, and…the results are thrilling and also thrillingly efficient.”
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“A jolting, unforgettable voice…A novel both formally innovative and psychologically unsparing.”
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“A heartbreaking but stunning read, a portrait of suffering barely visible under cloudy water.”
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“Written in a Joycean stream of consciousness with an Irish lilt, and sentence fragments transmit the pervasive sense of urgency, of thoughts spinning faster than the tongue can speak…an unforgettable novel.”
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“Open-minded readers (specifically those not put off by the unusual language structure) will be surprised, moved and awed by this original novel…This is exhilarating fiction from a voice to watch.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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A 2014 New York Times Notable Book
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One of the New York Magazine Top 10 Books of 2014
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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014
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A Library Journal Best Book of 2014
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One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2014
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AudioFile Earphones Award Winner
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Winner of the Baileys’ Women’s Prize for Fiction
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About Eimear McBride
Eimear McBride was born in 1976 and grew up in Ireland. She is the author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, which won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Desmond Elliot Prize, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, the Goldsmiths Prize, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, among others.