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A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
Contributor(s): McBride, Eimear (Author)

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ISBN: 1566893682     ISBN-13: 9781566893688
Publisher: Coffee House Press
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2014
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Coming Of Age
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2014006994
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (1.05 lbs) 227 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
- Topical - Family
Features: Dust Cover, Price on Product
Awards: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, Winner, Fiction, 2014
Dylan Thomas Prize, Nominee, Literary Excellence, 2014
L.A. Times Book Prize, Finalist, First Fiction, 2014
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/15/2014 pg. 56
Publishers Weekly 06/23/2014
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2014
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2014 pg. 14
New Yorker (The) 09/29/2014 pg. 80
New York Times Book Review 09/21/2014 pg. 12
New York Times Book Review 09/28/2014 pg. 30
New York Review of Books 11/20/2014 pg. 35
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/03/2014 pg. 28
Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2014 pg. 34
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/07/2014 pg. 26
LJ Best Books of Year 12/01/2014 pg. 28
 
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Publisher Description:
Winner, Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, 2014
Winner, Desmond Elliott Prize, 2014
Winner, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, 2014
Winner, Goldsmiths Prize, 2013
Finalist for the Folio Prize
Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize

NPR's Best Books of 2014
The New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2014
#3 on Time Out New York's 10 best books of 2014
Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Library Journal's Best Books of 2014
Boston Globe Best Fiction of 2014
Chicago Tribune Printers Row Journal Best Books of 2014
Star Tribune Best Fiction of 2014
Electric Literature 25 Best Novels of 2014
Largehearted Boy Favorite Novels of 2014

Eimear McBride is a writer of remarkable power and originality.--The Times Literary Supplement

An instant classic.--The Guardian

It's hard to imagine another narrative that would justify this way of telling, but perhaps McBride can build another style from scratch for another style of story. That's a project for another day, when this little book is famous.--London Review of Books

In edgy, hazy, stream-of-consciousness prose, Eimear McBride transports you directly into her narrator's mind and heart, making this experimental, award-winning novel totally unforgettable.--Bustle

A Girl is a Half-formed Thing is simply a brilliant book--entirely emotionally raw and at the same time technically astounding. Her prose is as haunting and moving as music, and the love story at the heart of the novel--between a sister and brother--as true and wrenching as any in literature. This is a book about everything: family, faith, sex, home, transcendence, violence, and love. I can't recommend it highly enough.--Elizabeth McCracken

McBride's A Girl is a Half-formed Thing is a game-changer, a disruptor, a grenade of a novel, and we all agreed this had to win.--Isabel Berwick

My discovery of the year was Eimear McBride's debut novel A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing.--Eleanor Catton

Eimear McBride's acclaimed debut tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumor, touching on everything from family violence to sexuality and the personal struggle to remain intact in times of intense trauma.

Eimear McBride was born in 1976 and grew up in Ireland. At twenty-seven she wrote A Girl is a Half-formed Thing and spent the next nine years trying to have it published.

Perhaps no debut has been more thrilling than Eimear McBride's Girl is a Half-formed Thing.-- SF Weekly

Undoubtedly my standout read of the year, A Girl is A Half-formed Thing is an exciting and innovative debut.-- Glasgow Review of Books

Irish author Eimear McBride earned hosannas for her first novel with the very evocative 'A Girl is a Half Formed Thing'.-- Indian Express

McBride] reframes our expectations of prose and clarifies an urgent reality: we are all half-formed, to some degree. --The Colorado Review

 
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