{"product_id":"a-girl-is-a-half-formed-thing-paperback","title":"A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEimear McBride\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe dazzling, fearless debut novel that won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the book the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e hails as \"a future classic\".\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eA Girl is a Half-formed Thing\u003c\/i\u003e is a revelatory work of fiction, a novel that instantly takes its place in the canon.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning author \u003cb\u003eEimear McBride\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1976 and grew up in Ireland. At twenty-seven she wrote \u003ci\u003eA Girl is a Half-formed Thing\u003c\/i\u003e 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. She currently lives in Norwich with her family. Her second novel is \u003ci\u003eThe Lesser Bohemians\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 09, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772760228128,"sku":"9781101903438","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a7eac5e3129b4993f57d51087858da50.webp?v=1780413502","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-girl-is-a-half-formed-thing-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}