A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
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| Author | Eimear McBride |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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| Pages | 227 |
| ISBN | 1566893682 |
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing is the debut novel of Eimear McBride. The book was first published in 2013 by Galley Beggar Press of Norwich, England, after being rejected by numerous other publishing companies.[1] It has won several awards including the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year,[2] the Goldsmiths Prize,[1] the Desmond Elliott Prize,[3] the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction,[4] and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.[5]
In March 2016 CB editions published About a Girl: A Reader's Guide to Eimear McBride's A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing" by David Collard. This offers a full record of the progress of McBride’s novel from its writing, its serial rejections and its initial publication through to the prizes, its reception in the US and the stage adaptation. Also included are a critical account of the novel’s reclamation of modernism, a wide-ranging interview with the author and transcriptions of previously unpublished early drafts of the novel that made her name.
References
- 1 2 Maughan, Philip (13 November 2013). "Goldsmiths Prize awarded to debut novelist Eimear McBride for A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing". New Statesman. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
- ↑ Doyle, Martin (28 May 2014). "Eimear McBride wins €15,000 Kerry Group Irish novel of the year award". Irish Times. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ↑ "The 2014 Prize". The Desmond Elliott Prize. 3 July 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
- ↑ Tim Masters (4 June 2014). "Eimear McBride wins Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction". BBC. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
- ↑ Beth Webb (November 21, 2014). "Eimear McBride wins the 2013 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize". The Daily Telegraph.