A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00DGXBL38
Publish date: June 17th 2013
Publisher: Galley Beggar Press
Pages no: 300
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Irish Literature,
Contemporary,
Ireland,
Female Authors
Am truly sorry I could not like this one - and in the interests of fairness I should say I stopped at 50% so this review is really just a quick one to say that despite several attempts and going back and reading bits again I just didnt "get" it. Kudos to the author for attempting to push the boundar...
Reading. Then Not. Sharp sentences. Jabbing thoughts. Unkindnesses bearing down. Book, set aside. Pause. And here is where the experience of reading A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing may end for many readers. Some, however, will lick their wounds and pick up the book again, return to Eimear McBride'...
My lack of rating for this book is simply because I cannot make my mind up about it. Reading the reviews here, my feeling swings widly between 'it's the best; groundbreaking, genius, prose-as poetry etc etc', and 'it's the worst; harrowing,too-clever, impenetrable..'and so forth. I will say that as ...
My lack of rating for this book is simply because I cannot make my mind up about it. Reading the reviews here, my feeling swings widly between 'it's the best; groundbreaking, genius, prose-as poetry etc etc', and 'it's the worst; harrowing,too-clever, impenetrable..'and so forth. I will say that as ...
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