A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing Author: McBride, Eimear ISBN: 9781101903438 Publisher: Crown Publishing Year: 201506

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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 “What is fascinating here, and what should induct the novel into a more enduring canon of women”s writing, is that McBride never self-censors when engaging with the pain, the abjection, and the desperation generated out of situations in which a woman is granted little more than her body and her words to use as weapons within imbalanced power structures.”–The Los Angeles Review of Books “[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 “A virtuosic debut: subversive, passionate, and darkly alchemical. Read it and

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2 reviews for A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing Author: McBride, Eimear ISBN: 9781101903438 Publisher: Crown Publishing Year: 201506

  1. tes

    Those last three years of Fitzgerald’s life, often obscured by the legend of his earlier Jazz Age glamour, are the focus of Stewart O’Nan’s gorgeously and gracefully written novel.

  2. Mathew

    Here, here. I couldn’t agree more.

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