The Lesser Bohemians

The Lesser Bohemians

by EimearMcBride (Author), EimearMcBride (Author)

Synopsis

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BORD GAIS IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2016 From the writer of one of the most memorable debuts of recent years. An eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in London to study drama and falls violently in love with an older actor. This older man has a disturbing past that the young girl is unprepared for. The young girl has a troubling past of her own. This is her story and their story. The Lesser Bohemians is about sexual passion. It is about innocence and the loss of it. At once epic and exquisitely intimate, it is a celebration of the dark and the light in love.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 01 Sep 2016

ISBN 10: 0571327850
ISBN 13: 9780571327850
Book Overview: The second novel from Eimear McBride, author of the Baileys Prize winning novel, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing

Author Bio
Eimear McBride grew up in the west of Ireland and studied acting at Drama Centre London. Her debut novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing took nine years to publish and subsequently received the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, the Goldsmiths Prize, Desmond Elliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her short fiction has appeared in Dubliners 100, The Long Gaze Back and on Radio 4. She occasionally reviews for the Guardian, TLS, New Statesman and New York Times Book Review. www.eimearmcbride.com