![]() ![]() ![]() Scraps of colloquial speech are interwoven with tastes, sounds and memories: "Get a lungful of that in you and see how you do, she says cigarette filter fraying brown on her tongue. Readers who persist through the fug, though, will find themselves transported deep into the mind of the narrator, experiencing her reality in an uncannily tangible way. In the stitches of her skin she'll wear your say." The opening three pages, written from the perspective of a child still in the womb, are a blur of wonky grammar and confused sensations: "For you. Sentences are short, fragmented, and more akin to poetry than prose. McBride is not interested in giving readers an easy ride the task she sets herself, with this Goldsmiths prize-winning book, is to stretch the possibilities of language. ![]() T his is not a beach read, and Eimear McBride would undoubtedly take that as the compliment it is intended to be. ![]()
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