{"product_id":"a-girl-is-a-half-formed-thing","title":"A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing","description":"Winner, Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, 2014\nWinner, Desmond Elliott Prize, 2014\nWinner, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, 2014\nWinner, Goldsmiths Prize, 2013\nFinalist for the Folio Prize\nShortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize\nNPR's Best Books of 2014\nThe New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2014\n#3 on Time Out New York's 10 best books of 2014\nPublishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Library Journal's Best Books of 2014\nBoston Globe Best Fiction of 2014\nChicago Tribune Printers Row Journal Best Books of 2014\nStar Tribune Best Fiction of 2014\nElectric Literature 25 Best Novels of 2014\nLargehearted Boy Favorite Novels of 2014\n\n\"Eimear McBride is a writer of remarkable power and originality.\"—The Times Literary Supplement\n\n\"An instant classic.\"—The Guardian\n\n\"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\n\n\"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\n\n\"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\n\n\"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\n\n\"My discovery of the year was Eimear McBride's debut novel A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing.\"—Eleanor Catton\n\nEimear 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.\n\nEimear 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.\n\n\"Perhaps no debut has been more thrilling than Eimear McBride's Girl is a Half-formed Thing.\"— SF Weekly\n\n\"Undoubtedly my standout read of the year, A Girl is A Half-formed Thing is an exciting and innovative debut.\"— Glasgow Review of Books\n\n\"Irish author Eimear McBride earned hosannas for her first novel with the very evocative 'A Girl is a Half Formed Thing'.\"— Indian Express\n\n\"[McBride] reframes our expectations of prose and clarifies an urgent reality: we are all half-formed, to some degree.\" —The Colorado Review\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1566893682\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1566893682.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:McBride, Eimear\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41448575860794,"sku":"DBV.1566893682.G","price":5.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1566893682-0.jpg?v=1780858808","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/a-girl-is-a-half-formed-thing","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}