Lesser Bohemians
Lesser Bohemians
Lesser Bohemians
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Shortlisted for The Goldsmith Prize 2016 Shortlisted for the 2016 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Eason Novel of the Year The captivating, daring new novel from Eimear McBride, whose astonishing debut novel, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, was an international literary phenomenon and earned the author multiple awards and recognition. Upon arrival in London, an eighteen-year-old Irish girl begins anew as a drama student, with all the hopes of any young actress searching for the fame she's always dreamed of. She struggles to fit in -- she's young and unexotic; a naive new girl -- but soon she forges friendships and finds a place for herself in the big city.
Then she meets an attractive older man. He's an established actor twenty years her senior, and the inevitable, clamorous relationship that ensues is one that will change her forever.
A redemptive, captivating story of passion and innocence set across the bedsits of mid-nineties London, McBride holds new love under her fierce gaze, giving us all a chance to remember what it's like to fall hard for another.
Then she meets an attractive older man. He's an established actor twenty years her senior, and the inevitable, clamorous relationship that ensues is one that will change her forever.
A redemptive, captivating story of passion and innocence set across the bedsits of mid-nineties London, McBride holds new love under her fierce gaze, giving us all a chance to remember what it's like to fall hard for another.
About the Author
About the Author
Eimear McBride was born in 1976 and grew up in Ireland. She currently lives in Norwich with her family. The Lesser Bohemians is her second novel.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
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
"[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
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
Hogarth Press
Pub date:
2017-08-15
Length:
336 pages
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