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The Bee Sting - A Novel
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The Bee Sting - A Novel
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Bolen Books
The Bee Sting - A Novel
From Farrar Straus & Giroux
Current price: $40.00
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One of
The New York Times
T
op 10 Books of 2023
Winner of the
An Post Irish Book of the Year 2023 and
the 2023 Nero Book Award for Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize and the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction
Finalist for the 2023 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.
AWARDS
•
2023 Man Booker Award - Nominee long-listed
•
2023 Kirkus Prize Finalists short-listed
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2023 Washington Post Best Books of the Year long-listed
•
2023 Time Magazine Best Books of the Year long-listed
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2023 Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year long-listed
•
2023 NPR Best Book of the Year long-listed
•
2023 New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year long-listed
•
2023 Amazon.com Best Books of the Year long-listed
•
2023 NYPL Best Books of the Year long-listed
•
2023 CPL: Chicago Public Library Best of the Best long-listed
•
2023 New Yorker Best Books of the Year long-listed
•
2023 Barnes and Noble Best New Books of the Year long-listed
•
2023 The Guardian (UK) Best Books of the Year long-listed
- Authors : Paul Murray
- Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Binding: Hardcover
- Edition:
- Pages: 656
- Height: 9.29
- Width: 6.01
- Weight: 1.76
- Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Isbn: 9780374600xxx
- Release Date : 2023-08-15