Binding: Hardcover
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 One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year One of TIME's 10 Best Fiction Books of the Year A Dua Lipa x Service 95 Book Club Pick 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 e Bay 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.
Title: The Bee Sting A Novel
Author(s): Murray Paul
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374600303
Pages: 656 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/15/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction