Eimear Mcbride

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Winner of numerous literary awards including the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014, The Desmond Elliott Prize 2014, The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2014, The Goldsmith Prize 2013 and listed in Best Books of the Year by the New York Times, Guardian, NPR and many more, Eimear McBride's debut novel A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing plunges us into the psyche 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

Produktdetails

• Faber Drama
• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 110g
• ISBN-13: 9780571325795
• ISBN-10: 0571325793
• Artikelnr.: 45193388

Autorenporträt

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 Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award. She occasionally writes and reviews for the Guardian, the New Statesman and the TLS.