A Girl is a Half-formed Thing
Eimear McBride's novel tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother after a tumour leaves him severely brain damaged. Not so much a stream of consciousness, as an unconscious railing against a life that makes little sense, and a shocking and intimate insight into the thoughts,...
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Eimear McBride's novel tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother after a tumour leaves him severely brain damaged. Not so much a stream of consciousness, as an unconscious railing against a life that makes little sense, and a shocking and intimate insight into the thoughts, feelings and sensual urges of a vulnerable and isolated protagonist, to read A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing is to plunge inside its narrator's head, experiencing her world first-hand. This isn't always comfortable - but it is always a revelation.
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Format: papier
Publish date: 23 lipca 2013
Publisher: Galley Beggar Press
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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