The bee sting
Description
One of The New York Times Top 10 Books of the Year
Winner of the An Post Irish Book of the Year, the Nero Gold Prize, and the Nero Book Award for Fiction
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Writers' Prize for Fiction
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction
One of The New Yorker's Essential Reads of 2023. One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2023. One of TIME's 10 Best Fiction Books of the Year. Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, The Guardian, The Economist, New York Public Library, BBC, and more.
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and thought-provoking tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart.
The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie’s once-lucrative car business is going under—but Dickie is spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife, Imelda, is selling off her jewelry on eBay and half-heartedly dodging the attention of fast-talking cattle farmer Big Mike, while their teenage daughter, Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge drink her way through her final exams. As for twelve-year-old PJ, he’s on the brink of running away.
If you wanted to change this story, how far back would you have to go? To the infamous bee sting that ruined Imelda’s wedding day? To the car crash one year before Cass was born? All the way back to Dickie at ten years old, standing in the summer garden with his father, learning how to be a real man?
The Bee Sting, Paul Murray’s exuberantly entertaining new novel, is a tour de force: a portrait of postcrash Ireland, a tragicomic family saga, and a dazzling story about the struggle to be good at the end of the world.
Subjects
Bunkers (Fortification) -- Fiction
Domestic fiction
Dysfunctional families
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
Families
Families -- Fiction
Fate and fatalism
Fate and fatalism -- Fiction
Fiction
Finance, Personal
Finance, Personal -- Fiction
Fortune
Fortune -- Fiction
Ireland -- Fiction
Life change events
Life change events -- Fiction
Literature
Psychological fiction
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Grouping Title | bee sting |
Grouping Author | paul murray |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2024-09-07 13:53:51PM |
Last Indexed | 2024-09-07 13:54:49PM |
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Domestic fiction
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
Families -- Fiction
Fate and fatalism -- Fiction
Finance, Personal -- Fiction
Fortune -- Fiction
Ireland -- Fiction
Life change events -- Fiction
Psychological fiction
The bee sting / Paul Murray
Dysfunctional families
Families
Fate and fatalism
Fiction
Finance, Personal
Fortune
Life change events
Literature
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