A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing: Adapted for the Stage

by Eimear McBride, ANNIE RYAN (Adapted by)

Overview

Winner of numerous literary awards including the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize, Eimear McBride's debut novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing plunges us into the psyche of a girl with breathtaking fury and intimacy.
'Eimear McBride is a writer of remarkable power and originality.' Times Literary Supplement
'An instant classic.' Guardian
Adapted for the stage by Annie Ryan for The Corn Exchange, Eimear McBride's A Girl is a Half-formed Thing premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival 2014.
'Unflinching... magnificent... The narrative transposes effortlessly to the stage, as if this is where it belongs.' Guardian
'One of the best stage adaptations of a novel you're likely to see.' Sunday Times

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780571325801
Publisher:	Faber and Faber
Publication date:	05/27/2015
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
Sales rank:	863,686
File size:	222 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Eimear McBride grew up in the west of Ireland and studied acting at Drama Centre London. Her debut novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing took nine years to publish and subsequently received the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, the Goldsmiths Prize, Desmond Elliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, as well as numerous other shortlistings including the Folio Prize and the L.A. Times First Fiction Award. She occasionally writes and reviews for the Guardian, the New Statesman and the TLS.
Eimear McBride grew up in the west of Ireland and trained at Drama Centre London. Her first novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing took nine years to find a publisher and subsequently received a number of awards, including the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, and the Goldsmiths Prize. Her second novel The Lesser Bohemians won the 2017 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. In 2017 she was awarded the inaugural Creative Fellowship of the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading. In a 2018 Times Literary Supplement poll of 200 critics, academics, and fiction writers, McBride was named one of the ten best British and Irish novelists writing today. Strange Hotel is McBride's third novel.

Editorial Reviews

'Eimear McBride is a writer of remarkable power and originality.' —Times Literary Supplement

'An instant classic.' —Guardian

'Unflinching... magnificent... The narrative transposes effortlessly to the stage, as if this is where it belongs.' —Guardian

'One of the best stage adaptations of a novel you're likely to see.' —Sunday Times

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