Eimear McBride
Autor de A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Author Eimear McBride at the 2016 Texas Book Festival. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53478913
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1976
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Ireland
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Irish writers (1)
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 6
- También por
- 8
- Miembros
- 1,725
- Popularidad
- #14,899
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 163
- ISBNs
- 78
- Idiomas
- 9
- Favorito
- 3
Essentially, the novel is about a young woman who suffers from a series of emotional and physical abuses and her own self-destructive behavioral responses to this abuse. Her father abandons the family before she's even born, while her toddler brother has a cancerous brain tumor. Her mother reacts by submersing herself in obsessive religiosity. Her uncle rapes her when she's 13. She comes of age and escapes to the city, acting out in self-harm but at least free to grope towards something better, but then her brother's cancer returns and she goes home and it all goes rotten.
The novel is written in fractured style, ignoring any and all good rules of grammar. This makes reading it hard work, except for those times when it feels like as the reader you get in a groove and can flow along with the rhythm of the words, understanding meaning on the conscious level, yes, but also catching meaning that seeps up from your subconscious. This didn't always happen for me and when it didn't the book felt like a struggle, but when it did, the book felt like genius. The fractured syntax could be said to reflect the protagonist's damaged state of mind, and this is very effectively the case as the story arc descends into greater horror and the writing becomes even more garbled and inchoate.
To illustrate the style, here's what I thought was a sterling passage describing what you might say was the beginning of her existence as a sexual being, around puberty:… (más)