The adventurous reader, however, will find that they have a real book on their hands, a live one, a book that is not like any other.Ī ranting, Catholic mother, a disabled brother and a pervy uncle: these may be bog-gothic standards of any Irish book season, but McBride brings passion and and distance with the voice of her highly dissociated protagonist, whose name we never get to hear. In the stitches of her skin she'll wear your say." If this kind of thing bores or frightens you, then there are many other wonderful books out there for you to enjoy. Here, for example, are the opening lines: "For you. Eimear McBride is that old fashioned thing, a genius, in that she writes truth-spilling, uncompromising and brilliant prose that can be, on occasion, quite hard to read.
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