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The Bee Sting - Hardcover

by Paul Murray
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Availability:In StockContributor:Paul MurrayPublish date:2023-08-15Pages:656
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374600303ISBN-10:374600309UPC:9780374600303Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Family Life, SagasBook Topic:SiblingsAward:2023 Kirkus Prize Finalist - Fiction Award|2023 Man Booker Prize Finalist - Novel AwardSize:9.10 x 6.40 x 1.90 inchesWeight:1.8Product ID:SC7THH6G8C

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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374600303ISBN-10:374600309UPC:9780374600303Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Family Life, SagasBook Topic:SiblingsAward:2023 Kirkus Prize Finalist - Fiction Award|2023 Man Booker Prize Finalist - Novel AwardSize:9.10 x 6.40 x 1.90 inchesWeight:1.8Product ID:SC7THH6G8C
Paul Murray was born in 1975 in Dublin. He is the author of three previous novels. An Evening of Long Goodbyes (2003) was short-listed for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Skippy Dies (2010) was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Mark and the Void (2015) was the joint winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and was named one of Time's Top 10 Fiction Books of the year.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Awards

🏆 2023 Kirkus Prize Finalist - Fiction Award|2023 Man Booker Prize Finalist - Novel Award

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