A Girl is a half-formed thing / Eimear McBride.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McBride, Eimear.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Siblings--Fiction.

Siblings.

Brain--Tumors--Patients--Fiction.

Brain.

Genre:

Psychological fiction.

Physical Description:

227 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2014.

Summary:

Eimear McBride's acclaimed debut tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumor, touching on everything from family violence to sexuality and the personal struggle to remain intact in times of intense trauma. Eimear McBride was born in 1976 and grew up in Ireland. At twenty-seven she wrote A Girl is a Half-formed Thing and spent the next nine years trying to have it published"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Goldsmith Prize, 2013.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Sargent fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781566893688 ;