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Publisher: Picador
Author: Paul Murray
ISBN: 9781250338259
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The Bee Sting
by
Paul Murray
The Bee Sting by
Paul Murray
Reviews
"Murray is a master of the darkly ominous, limning these four seemingly demon-driven lives in granular detail. The novel moves expertly among them, switching from one point of view to another while offering both present circumstances and characters' back stories. Like Murray's Skippy Dies (2010), this is a tour de force, beautifully written . . . and perfectly apposite in its tone. It is, in sum, utterly fascinating and unforgettable."
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Summary
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.
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.
One of The New York Times Top 10 Books of the Year.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Writers' Prize for Fiction.