Eimear McBride
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| Title | : | A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing |
| Author | : | Eimear McBride |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 205 pages |
| Published | : | June 27th 2013 by Galley Beggar Press (first published June 17th 2013) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. European Literature. Irish Literature. Cultural. Ireland |
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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.Be Specific About Books Conducive To A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
| Original Title: | A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing |
| ISBN: | 0957185324 (ISBN13: 9780957185326) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Dylan Thomas Prize Nominee (2014), Desmond Elliott Prize (2014), Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (2013), Women's Prize for Fiction (2014), Specsavers National Book Award Nominee for International Author of the Year (2014) Goldsmiths Prize (2013), Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award (2014), Rathbones Folio Prize Nominee (2014) |
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Ratings: 3.48 From 8552 Users | 1549 ReviewsComment On Containing Books A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
How did she do it? I kept asking myself that question as I read. How did the author keep me reading to the end? And not only keep me reading but keep me involved, challenged, rewarded. If it had been a matter of plot or ending, Id understand better. But it wasnt. What plot there was happened early in the book and the ending was written in the beginning, written in the stitches of a head wound, written in green bile, written in a pool of amniotic fluid.If it was the content that entertained me,4.5 starsI had a bit of a love/hate relationship with this book. This is a sample of my thoughts while reading it:What the what am I reading? This novel is a half formed thing.Ok in between all these jumbled up sentences is a story.Wow this is actually brilliant.This is a dark, dark book.The disjointed prose is the perfect way to tell this story.Ok I'm ready to be done with this now.Oh my god my heart is breaking!This book is amazing and deserving of the awards it won.I love this book.
Booktube review: https://goo.gl/jbqVz1 "the beginning of teens us. thirteen me fifteen sixteen you." "hot swamp with condensation. roll. What. I'm. Help. I'm doing here. Light the gas just and put the pot on full." Excuse me? I would understand what the heck everyone loves so much about this book if someone could please translate it into actual english and actual sentences. I mean i understand -kind of- what people see in this book. Its unique. In the writing, in the story, not so much in the
Cold spanner. Page was. Under the stream of the. Find are. Time. Smelling green air. Now isn't that annoying? Imagine reading a whole book constructed in this sense, sorry, this "stream of consciousness". Honestly, could you tell from what I wrote that I was selling underground tools to little green men that smell like garbage? Because if I hadn't read the back of the book I would have had no idea what half the characters were doing or would have done. It was so vague and the sentences were so
Absolutely awful book, average storyline but irritating and totally pointless writing style. I didn't finish it, got to page 130, just couldn't waste any more of my precious free time reading it. Pity as it had rave reviews, I'm still asking why, a promotional ploy perhaps?!
so so so awful. i hated almost every minute. pretty sure all the awards are a result of the emperor's new clothes syndrome, as if you rewrote it in English you'd find neither the plot nor the characters interesting. as it is though it's written in pathetic fragments which, painful enough the first time, you are forced to reread far too often because (surprise surprise) the meaning is often lost when you dispense with grammar and half the words you need to say something. felt like marking a never
Oh my emotions. My mixed emotions. My emotions mixed with dread. My dread that she wouldn't stop. Her not stopping. Stopping me from wanting to stop. And who was I when I read this book?"The starting point was the quote from James Joyce: One great part of human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot. " Eimear McBride.In wishing to extend the possibilities of language - the extra meaning that can be
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