Womens Prize For Fiction Winner
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
by Eimear McBride
Summary
In fractured, headlong prose a young Irish woman narrates a childhood and adolescence marked by her brother's illness and her own self destruction. McBride breaks syntax open to put the reader inside raw, preverbal experience, making language itself enact trauma. The fearless style took nine years to find a publisher and then stunned the literary world.
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Historical Context & Significance
Rejected for almost a decade, McBride's debut was published by a tiny press before winning and transforming her career.