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The dazzling, fearless debut novel that 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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- Brand: Mcbride, Eimear
- Published on: 2015-06-09
- Released on: 2015-06-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.99" h x .61" w x 5.17" l, .50 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 240 pages
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing: A Novel, by Eimear McBride Review Winner of 2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize Winner of 2013 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlisted for the Folio Prize Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Library Journal’s Best Books of 2014 One of Time Out New York’s Ten Best Books of 2014 Selected as one of NPR's 2014 Great Reads A New York Magazine Best Book of 2014 A Boston Globe Best Book 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 The New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2014 Vanity Fair 11 Best Books of 2014"One of the most groundbreaking pieces of literature to come from Ireland, or anywhere, in recent years."—Vanity Fair“For all its experiments with form, the events of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing are easy for readers to follow—McBride’s great skill is in communicating a clear story through a complicated use of language…A remarkable book…Her language is artfully deranged to make familiar experiences strange and new but in that derangement there is vitality, even joy. The desolation of the tale is held in a gripping tension with the richness of the telling… McBride is pushing further even than Beckett did into what he called ‘the syntax of weakness.’ Her very words have holes in them.”—The New York Review of Books"That this deliberately stunted narrative language retains its power past the girl's childhood and into her adult years is a testament to McBride's verbal dexterity and tight narrative focus… A heartbreaking but stunning read, a portrait of suffering barely visible under cloudy water.”—Chicago Tribune “Shattering…Be prepared to be blown away by this raw, visceral, brutally intense neomodernist first novel… While McBride's girl may be a half-formed thing, there's nothing half-formed about even her most fragmented sentences… Her American publisher writes, "Don't be cowed by the first few pages of this novel. Think about how glad you were that you read past the beginning of The Sound and the Fury, or A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." The references to William Faulkner and James Joyce aren't outlandish; McBride's work also evokes Samuel Beckett and Edna O'Brien… McBride's writing is so alive with internal rhymes, snippets of overheard conversation, prayers and unfiltered emotion, and her narrator so feisty, that readers can't help but be pulled into the vortex of this devastating, ferociously original debut.”--NPR “Brilliant…bracing, unrelenting, and audacious…Yes, this book actually gave me nightmares. And yet I did not want to stop reading it…It’s this thread of love that sustains the novel and keeps it from becoming an unending tale of misery. It’s also what gives weight and power to the novel’s most beautifully written passages…A literary sensation.”—The Millions “A future classic…[with] inevitable comparisons to the Irish tradition — Beckett’s monologues, Joyce’s Molly Bloom soliloquy in Ulysses and the ontogenetic prose of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man— and to the Irish/British female avants: Edna O’Brien, Virginia Woolf, Ann Quin, Christine Brooke-Rose. What all that praise had in common, besides that it was deserved, was the sad sense that the English-language novel had matured from modernism, and that in maturing its spirit was lost…McBride’s book was a shock to that sentiment, not least because it is about that sentiment. A Girl subjects the outer language the world expects of us to the inner syntaxes that are natural to our minds, and in doing so refuses to equate universal experience with universal expression — a false religion that has oppressed most contemporary literature, and most contemporary souls.”—Joshua Cohen, New York Times “Blazingly daring…[McBride’s] prose is a visceral throb, and the sentences run meanings together to produce a kind of compression in which words, freed from the tedious march of sequence, seem to want to merge with one another, as paint and musical notes can. The results are thrilling, and also thrillingly efficient. The language plunges us into the center of experiences that are often raw, unpleasant, frightening, but also vital.”—James Wood, New Yorker "Eimear McBride's 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 "Unrelenting in voice and impact."—Vanity Fair“A life told from deep down inside, beautiful, harrowing, and ultimately rewarding the way only a brilliant work of literature can be.” —Michael Chabon "A virtuosic debut: subversive, passionate, and darkly alchemical. Read it and be changed."—Eleanor Catton “Ten pages in and all the bells start ringing. It explodes into your chest.” –Caitlin Moran “A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing is wild, brave, moving and darkly cryptic.” –Chris Cleave “A novel both formally innovative and psychologically unsparing. Ms. McBride's story follows the narrator from her infancy in rural Ireland to early adulthood, dwelling on two major traumas: her older brother's fight against brain cancer and her self-immolating affair with a sleazy uncle-in-law. Ms. McBride's shattered soliloquys masterfully convey the maelstrom of teenage sexuality…But softening the shrapnel-like bombardment of impressions is the narrator's tender and tragic love for her brother…The hurt of adolescence is a familiar subject for a novel, but Ms. McBride's stylistic daring makes it fresh and raw.” –The Wall Street Journal "It was a really astonishing book. We felt that from the first time we read it - it stood out from the crowd. . . It's incredibly original. It has a raw energy we all responded to. It has real lyrical qualities even though the subject matter can sometimes be so shocking." —BBC "[W]ritten 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.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review "McBride calls to mind both Joyce and Stein in her syntax and mechanics, but she brings her own emotional range to the table, as well. . . 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, starred review "A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing is a gorgeously odd novel. . . McBride's style, which she has called an attempt to capture "the moment just before language becomes formatted thought," is the most remarkable aspect of the book." —NPR "Eimear McBride is a writer of remarkable power and originality"—David Collard, The Times Literary Supplement "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"—Adam Mars-Jones, London Review of Books "It is always a wonderful and satisfying thing to hear that an unknown debut author has won a major prize for writing. . . And when the news that the unknown writer winning the big prize is being published in the United States by Minneapolis' Coffee House Press, well, the news is all the more welcome." —Star Tribune “[A Girl is a Half-formed Thing] is formally groundbreaking, and has been declared a work of “genius” by Man Booker winner Anne Enright. It came to widespread public attention last year, when it was awarded the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize, set up to reward iconoclastic fiction. Since then, the book has been shortlisted for the Folio Prize and now longlisted for the Baileys: the establishment, in other words, is remaking itself in the image of the revolutionary.” —The Telegraph "Eimear McBride is that old-fashioned thing, a genius…The adventurous reader will find that they have a real book on their hands, a live one, a book that is not like any other."—Anne Enright, The Guardian “One of the most remarkable things about [A Girl is a Half-formed Thing] is hearing the thoughts of a woman from the inside out. There are very few authentic literary examples of the inner workings of a woman’s mind.”—The Independent Ireland, “Women Are a lot Angrier and They’re Not Looking for Love” "The language is expressionistic, confiding, and plays havoc with the normal rules of syntax and structure. For the reader, the impression is of a voice so close to your ear that you can almost hear the breathing." —Irish Independent "McBride’s much praised and powerful first novel." —BBC "An astonishing literary debut" —The Independent “Eimear McBride very deliberately set out to recapture in her own writing what Joyce had done for her in his – opened up parts of life that couldn’t be described in conventional language.” —The Telegraph, “Books about Ireland: holiday reading guide” "McBride was hailed as "that old-fashioned thing, a genius" by fellow Irish novelist Anne Enright." . . . This is a novel so emotionally overwhelming that it can be hard to finish a sentence, but also one in which each line repays thought and second reading." —The Guardian “[I]t was heartening to observe that the most talked about book of the season, at least among the people I was around, will be published in the United States by the tiny and prescient Coffee House Press. It’s called A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, and it’s by Eimear McBride—look out for it in September.” —The New Yorker, ”Page-Turner” blog, “Poetry in Seattle: an A.W.P. Diary” "A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing is to modern fiction what bare-knuckle fist fights are to the Marquess-of-Queensbury-ruled boxing – this is the savage and fucking hard-hitting end of the genre. . . [A]bsolutely brilliant."—The Only Way is Reading “I urge readers to step outside their literary boxes and experience this remarkable book.”—Shelf Unbound “McBride has created a world, that is not just accessible but positively drags you in, surrounds and infiltrates you. Her innovative approach to language is sometimes shocking, but it’s the only way that we can genuinely experience the whole of the character.” —Tales From a Bruce Eye View “Amazing writing.” —Library Journal, “Prepub Alert: My Fiction Picks” "I’m left with great admiration for the author’s skill."—Bluestocking Journal "A wonderful but harrowing first person stream of consciousness. . . it truly is one of the most extraordinary things I've read in the last year." —Harper’s Bazaar “At its most fundamental level this is a heartwrenching story of love, loss and an exceptionally strong sibling bond. The sadness of it was almost unbearable; it didn’t remind me of grief, it felt like it. But in as far as grief can only spring from love, there is something beautiful about that, and about much of the writing.” —PaperBlog “McBride has produced something unparalleled in pace and tone to the works of other Irish writers.” —The Vault “Playful, rich, exciting—rarely have I read a book where I felt that the medium actually is the message.” —The Star Online “Eimear McBride’s victory in the Bailey Prize with A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing is a heartening though rare instance of a difficult book being given a reward from mainstream publishing, not just from independent readers and reviewers.” —Quadrapheme, “Why difficult literature is a good thing” “A Girl is a Half-formed Thing is a challenging, knotty read that demands your full attention, but it’s hardly a chore to completely turn yourself over to it. . . the lyrical approach to narration that moves this prize-winning novel beyond simply a wonderful story to a breathtaking piece of art.” —UCL Center for Publishing "Applause and credit is well earned, for the voice is like nothing you’ve ever heard before."—Kingston Creative Writers "McBride’s experiment reaches back into the archaic and the incoherent: it is not so much an expression of genius as of ungenius, a dismantling of the scaffolding of thought, of culture and the Church, expressing instead the profundity of fragmentation and psychological disrepair."—The Conversation
About the Author 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 just under a decade trying to have it published. She currently lives in Norwich with her family and is at work on her second novel.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful. A girl's challenge... By Friederike Knabe What struck me most when reading into the first pages of Eimear McBride's debut novel, A GIRL IS A HALF-FORMED THING , is her language and style: staccato half-sentences, or just a couple of words like "I, me, It's a. For you. You'll soon. You'll give her name.", followed by a full stop. In other paragraphs the author uses alliterations and repeats that give the language an unusual yet at times poetic rhythm. It will take the reader a while before you can distinguish any distinct voices. There are no indicators for direct speech, hardly any punctuation besides the "." All these elements - the words, the interrupted or incomplete sentences or those with a grammatically strange and – to our understanding incorrect order of words - all these appear as the "half-formed" inner expressions of feelings, thoughts or musings of a young girl, not even half-formed yet herself.Narrated by the unnamed protagonist we enter her most intimate thoughts, anxieties, and dreams or nightmares. As we read further and become more accustomed with McBride's style, we can identify other separate voices of persons close to the protagonist: above all "Mammy", a stern, deeply religious disciplinarian, often addressed by her in a begging tone, and, in contrast, her beloved slightly older brother. He has a learning disability as a result of a brain tumour or such suffered at a very early age. The girl talks to her brother - mostly in her own mind – and tells him her deepest thoughts, even before her language has been properly formed...Do the staccato, half-formed sentences evolve into something more easily read, easily understood by the reader as the girls grows? Not really. We can follow her into her late teens and it is up to us to get used to her way of expressing herself or not. Other individuals in her surroundings - the mother, aunt and uncle, later a girlfriend and also her brother - express themselves in more commonly familiar language. Nonetheless, the attention of the reader is constantly challenged as dialogs and stream of consciousness flow into each other without any clear distinction.The actual story that emerges from this unique and original way of presenting it is a girl's coming of age story from womb to young adulthood. As such it is not unusual and has been told many times before: growing up without a father, being controlled by a mother for whom religious belief and prayer provide all the answers to all problems, especially where the mentally challenged brother is concerned. McBride delves deep into her protagonist's innermost feelings, her emotional trauma, and her conflicted attitude to sexuality. Her life is a continuing struggle between the need for affection and self-inflicted rejection, for independence and yet, at the same time, recognition of her own vulnerability and dependency. She moves from the countryside to the city where she is drawn deeply into the underbelly of life. When her brother's health collapses, she returns home. But her demons won't leave her alone. In a kind of mind meld with her brother she shares her fears for him and her despair at life, and eventually discovers how much more her own life is intricately connected to his...In a recent interview, Eimear McBride, winner of the Bailey Women Prize for Fiction 2014, expressed her view that she wants to challenge her readers with her novel and compel them to reflect as they read and interpret the novel's meanings and the author's intentions in their own ways. In my view, she has achieved her objectives well. There is much to discuss about and within her novel. It is provocative and unsettling at times, explicit in its violence and sexuality, rarely comforting if ever. To get to the depth of it, the book does demand patience of the reader and a willingness to get used to or to overcome the challenges of language and style she applies. It is a prime example for me where one can admire the author's imagination and creativity, yet cannot quite agree with the way the story is told. Yet, after finishing the book I found myself not only reflecting on the central character and the events described but also developing growing empathy with the protagonist and her difficult and complex coming of age process. Simple star rating is inadequate for a book like McBride's. My reaction is between admiration for what the successfully achieved and my own "like" or "love".I won this book as a GoodReads First Reads ARC. The review reflects my thoughts only.
31 of 33 people found the following review helpful. Be prepared to be overwhelmed. By Thomas This is not a book for those who cannot bear to see the underbelly of this world. I bought this from the UK since it will not be out in the US until September. The impetus was a review I saw in The Guardian and an interview where the author credits James Joyce for giving her the courage to break the rules to tell her story. I found that it was very hard going at first. In fact, if I had come across the book without hearing how captivating the book is I might not have gone beyond the first few pages. So I started over again and began to read it aloud trying to use the punctuation as a guide. Since I was now very engaged in the book I became transported. Suddenly without realizing it my eyes became waterfalls and I couldn't continue for a few moments until I wiped them dry. From this point on, I continued to read aloud until the very end. What an experience.
42 of 48 people found the following review helpful. “Hurt me. Until I am outside pain.” By Isabel Barbesky A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (Kindle Edition)A dark, disturbing, often difficult but deceptively visual and ultimately rewarding novel. One line sums up much of the book for me - “Hurt me. Until I am outside pain.” The narrator, who for most of the book engages in a staccato, one-way conversation with her disabled, brain-damaged brother, appears to try to mask the unbearable pain in her soul by driving physical pain into herself, often literally. Judging by the review split, also a full-blown Marmite book. The only way to get into it and stay there is just go with it. Don’t concern yourself with close textual analysis. That way lies madness. Let the jagged, disjointed impressions take you over and move you along. If you do, reading MacBride’s book transforms itself from seemingly impossible to page-turningly compulsive.
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