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The Lesser Bohemians: A Novel Audiobook
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A breathtaking award-winning novel about an extraordinary, all-consuming love affair One night an eighteen-year-old Irish girl, recently arrived in London to attend drama school, meets an older man—a well-regarded actor in his own right. While she is naive and thrilled by life in the big city, he is haunted by more than a few demons, and the clamorous relationship that ensues risks undoing them both. A captivating story of passion and innocence, joy and discovery set against the vibrant atmosphere of 1990s London over the course of a single year, The Lesser Bohemians glows with the eddies and anxieties of growing up, and the transformative intensity of a powerful new love. Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award Shortlisted for the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize Shortlisted for the 2016 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Eason Novel of the Year
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“Eimear McBride was an actor before she was a writer. Her novels, especially as performed by her, are breathtakingly effective both as literature and as theater…This telling is so moving, so universal and yet so specific to these two gifted, damaged people, so powerful (and powerfully erotic) as to be unforgettable. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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"[A] propulsive coming-of-age story…imbued with a captivating sense of youthful excitement and vulnerability.”
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“A full-on sensory experience—and another superlative achievement.”
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“There’s an openness, an inclusivity, a distinct lack of God-almightyness, that makes reading [McBride] such a pleasure.”
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“An electric and beautiful account of how the walls of self shift and buckle and are rebuilt.”
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“[A] powerful novel about desire.”
— O, The Oprah Magazine
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Longlisted for the 2017 Baileys’ Women’s Prize for Fiction
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
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Among longlisted titles for Baileys Women's Prize, 2017
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Among shortlisted titles for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2018
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Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize, 2017
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Among shortlisted titles for Royal Society of Literature Encore Award, 2017
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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.