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A girl is a half-formed thing

"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"--Provided by publisher.

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Main Author: McBride, Eimear
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2014.
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Teenage girls > Fiction.
Brothers and sisters > Fiction.
Mothers > Fiction.
Religious fanaticism > Fiction.
Rape > Fiction.
Rape victims > Fiction.
Uncles > Fiction.
Brain > Tumors > Patients > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Ireland > Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
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Summary:"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"--Provided by publisher.
Item Description:Originally published: Great Britain : Galley Beggar Press, 2013.
Physical Description:227 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:1566893682 (hbk.)
9781566893688 (hbk.)
Author Notes:Eimear McBride was born in 1976 and grew up in the west of Ireland. At twenty-seven she wrote A Girl is a Half-formed Thing and spent the next nine years trying to have it published. In 2013 it was the recipient of the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize. She currently lives in the UK with her husband and daughter.

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