· What strikes you most when you read 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 /5. · A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing is completely modern in its sensibility and completely old-fashioned in the way it triumphantly ignores the needs of the book market. It took nine years, apparently Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. · Based on the acclaimed novel of the same name, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing follows the inner narrative of a girl, played by Jenn Murray (Brooklyn, Maleficent, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them), from birth until the age of twenty with vivid intensity and originality. This character navigates the crushing Catholicism and hardship of her Irish childhood with astonishing resilience and intelligence.
I met a man. I met a man. And I lay down. And slapped and cried and wined and dined. I met a man and many more and I didn't know you at all.". ― Eimear McBride, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing. tags: a-girl-is-a-half-formed-thing, contemporary-irish-literature, contemporary-literature, irish. 0 likes. Like. I can't recommend it highly enough."-Elizabeth McCracken"My discovery of the year was Eimear McBride's debut novel A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing."-Eleanor CattonEimear 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. Eimear McBride. This Study Guide consists of approximately 30 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing. Print Word PDF. This section contains words. (approx. 2 pages at words per page).
Award-winning author Eimear McBride was born in 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. The novel went on to win 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. What strikes you most when you read 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. A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing is completely modern in its sensibility and completely old-fashioned in the way it triumphantly ignores the needs of the book market. It took nine years, apparently.
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