The Lesser Bohemians
de Eimear McBride
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1925355160
- ISBN 13
- 9781925355161
- Librería
-
Kensington, Victoria, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
Text Publishing first Australian edition (2016), signed and inscribed by the author.
Paperback copy in first class condition throughout.
A story of first love and redemption set across the bedsits and squats of mid 1990's North London.
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El Sep 1 2016, un lector dijo:
The Lesser Bohemians is the second novel by Irish-born author, Eimear McBride. In the mid-1990s, a young Irish woman goes to London to study acting at Drama College. She's just eighteen, rather naïve, and still a virgin. A few weeks into her first term, she encounters an actor in a bar. An older man, thirty-eight, and apparently quite well-regarded for his roles. What is supposed to be a one-night-stand to get rid of her inconvenient virginity begins to morph into some sort of relationship, although nothing runs smoothly.
McBride easily conveys the feel of the theatre scene and mid-nineties London: flats, bedsits and squats; parties, drinking to excess, late nights and libidinous behaviour. Her tale understandably includes quite a lot of sex, with various and multiple partners, and many of the descriptions are quite explicit, as are those of the abuse (sexual, physical and psychological) of children and adolescents. Self-harm and anorexia also feature.
Initially, the writing style means the reader has to put in quite some effort. It reads like a stream of consciousness narrative, like diary shorthand, often just fragments of sentences. The absence of quote marks for speech makes it challenging to read. For the bulk of the novel, main characters are referred to as "he" and "she", or the Landlady, the Flatmate or his Russian Missus, or her boyfriend, so the reader really has to pay attention to context.
About halfway, when the lover tells his tale, the narrative becomes more conventional. It is a testament to the author's talent that the absence of quote marks becomes less noticeable as the book progresses; perhaps by this stage the reader has also picked up the author's rhythm, so something like "Shame fuses into silence letting the night maraud, killing bit by useless hope of not being the girl I was. Am. She is" is less confusing than it might be.
McBride constructs her novel so that it is almost as if the young woman's coming of age tale is the framework for the telling of the story of her lover's life. The unique style of this novel may not be for everyone, but readers who persevere with it are rewarded with a story that is raw, gritty, intimate and filled with characters to despise, but also characters to hope for and rejoice in. An engrossing read.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Erinbank. Books (AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 6728068
- Título
- The Lesser Bohemians
- Autor
- Eimear McBride
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Paperback, spine uncreased
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Australian Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 1925355160
- ISBN 13
- 9781925355161
- Editorial
- Text Publishing
- Lugar de publicación
- Melbourne
- Fecha de publicación
- 2016
- Páginas
- 312
- Tamaño
- 23.5 x 15.5 x 2cm
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Rare Titles, First Editions, Signed Copies; Featured Fiction;
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Erinbank. Books
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Kensington, Victoria
Sobre Erinbank. Books
We are a family owned and operated new and 2nd hand bookstore within an existing business that has operated for 30 years. Our collection of books, assembled over the last twenty years has a literary focus and includes rare, antiquarian and first editions and substantial offerings within the genres of General and Australian fiction, crime, art, poetry, history, biographies and the Classics.
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