A girl is a half-formed thing

Eimear McBride

Original title: A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

earliest edition we have, 2013 Hogarth, 2015 paperback 240 pages

Eimear McBride's novel tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother who is living with the after effects of a brain tunour. 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 plu...

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Editions we hold

Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing edition · 2015 · Faber & Faber, Incorporated · 9780571325801
Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing edition · 2015 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 80 pages · 9780571325795
A girl is a half-formed thing edition · 2015 · Simon & Schuster Canada · 228 pages · 9781476789033
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing paperback · 2015 · Hogarth · 240 pages · 9781101903438
Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing edition · 2014 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 9780571317172
A girl is a half-formed thing edition · 2014 · Simon & Schuster Canada · 228 pages · 9781476789026
Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing edition · 2014 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 9780571321247
Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing edition · 2014 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 9780571319664
Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing edition · 2014 · Simon & Schuster Canada · 9781476789040
Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing edition · 2013 · Galley Beggar Press · 9780957185371
A girl is a half-formed thing edition · 2013 · Galley Beggar · 205 pages · 9780957185326
Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing edition · 2013 · Text Publishing Company · 240 pages · 9781922182234

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