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Raw, vivid female experiences told with sharp, original wit.

Mouthpieces

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  • Paperback

    48 pages

  • Release Date

    2 March 2021

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Summary

Written during her time as the inaugural fellow in the Beckett archive last year, Eimear McBride’s three short, characteristically brilliant texts are collected in one work, Mouthpieces.

Each text depicts a fragment of female experience, all of them told in Eimear’s vivid, original and sharp-witted style. In ‘The Adminicle Exists’, we hear the inner voice of a woman who saves her troubled, dangerous partner; in ‘An Act of Violence’, a woman is quizzed about her reaction to a …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780571365814
ISBN-10:0571365817
Author:Eimear McBride
Publisher:Faber & Faber
Imprint:Faber & Faber
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:48
Release Date:2 March 2021
Weight:40g
Dimensions:3mm x 111mm x 160mm
Mouthpieces by Eimear McBride - ISBN: 9780571365814
111 × 160 mm
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Critics Review

‘As Anne Enright has said, she is something of a genius.’ - Sebastian Barry

About The Author

Eimear McBride

Eimear McBride is the author of two novels:

  • The Lesser Bohemians (Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize)
  • A Girl is a Half-formed Thing (Winner of the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, Irish Novel of the Year, the Goldsmiths Prize, and others)

She was the inaugural creative fellow at the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading, and occasionally writes for The Guardian, TLS, New Statesman, and The Irish Times.

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