EAN: 9780374600303

THE BEE STING - PAUL MURRAY GEBUNDEN

Longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize    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.

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