The Lesser Bohemians
By Eimear McBride
By Eimear McBride
By Eimear McBride
By Eimear McBride
By Eimear McBride
Read by Eimear McBride
By Eimear McBride
Read by Eimear McBride
Category: Literary Fiction | Women's Fiction
Category: Literary Fiction | Women's Fiction
Category: Literary Fiction | Women's Fiction | Audiobooks
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$17.00
Aug 15, 2017 | ISBN 9781101903506
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Sep 20, 2016 | ISBN 9781101903490
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Sep 20, 2016 | ISBN 9781524708108
661 Minutes
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Praise
Praise for THE LESSER BOHEMIANS
“[A] propulsive coming-of-age story… imbued with a captivating sense of youthful excitement and vulnerability.”
—The New Yorker
“The confidence and the capacity are as good as anyone’s…there’s an openness, an inclusivity, a distinct lack of God-almightyness, that makes reading [McBride] such a pleasure.”
—Jeannette Winterson, New York Times Book Review
“The Lesser Bohemians” is every bit as stylistically resourceful as “Girl,” every bit as urgent and authentic. It is also more well-rounded, better. The narrative voice will be recognizable to readers of the earlier novel, capturing a snapshot of thought at the moment before grammar constrains it, what the author has referred to as a “stream of pre-consciousness.” The word order is once again scrambled to ingenious (and poetic) effect, clauses pared down to their impressionistic essences…For a second time, Ms. McBride has channeled the mental life of a narrator with an intensity, a lack of mediation, that few authors can achieve. “The Lesser Bohemians” is a full-on sensory experience—and another superlative achievement.”
—Wall Street Journal
“Spellbinding…[H]er stunning second novel shows that she has not only acquired fresh surfaces to work on, she has also developed exciting new brush strokes…McBride’s prose sings…The Lesser Bohemians recalls Samuel Beckett and Henry Miller. Ultimately, though, it is a fiercely original work, an extraordinary novel crafted by a fearless modern writer.”
—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“The Lesser Bohemians is a love story, yes, but it is really an electric and beautiful account of how the walls of self shift and buckle and are rebuilt.”
—NPR.org
“Joycean…The novel is filled with intricate, imaginative wordplay…crafted by one of the most admired young talents in fiction.”
—Scott Simon, NPR
“[A] powerful novel about desire.”
—O, The Oprah Magazine
“Not often does a novel so expertly seduce its readers into an alternate state of consciousness that it mimics an actual dream state, where everything solid is hazily just beyond reach. Eimear McBride, with her deployment of modernist technique reminiscent of James Joyce, elicits such a mental state throughout her new novel, The Lesser Bohemians ― really,
it’s the only way to read it.”
—Huffington Post
“This is above all, a love story: bare, achingly romantic, and crushingly felt.”
—Booklist, starred review
Awards
James Tait Black Memorial Prize WINNER 2017
Baileys Women’s Prize LONGLIST 2017
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award SHORTLIST 2018
Royal Society of Literature Encore Award SHORTLIST 2017
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