![]() McBride wrote A Girl is a Half-formed Thing 10 years ago, when she was 27. While McBride's girl may be a half-formed thing, there's nothing half-formed about even her most fragmented sentences. ![]() McBride takes on classic Irish literary themes - a harsh, unforgiving religion, damaged families, the dying and the dead, transgressive sex - and gives them a gritty new spin, in language that manages to convey pre-verbal experience. ![]() There's nothing easy about Eimear McBride's A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, from its fractured language to its shattering story of the young unnamed narrator's attempt to drown mental anguish with physical pain. How?īe prepared to be blown away by this raw, visceral, brutally intense neomodernist first novel. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing Author Eimear McBride ![]()
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