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The Bee Sting
A Novel
Buch von Paul Murray
Sprache: Englisch

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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.

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.

Über den Autor
Paul Murray was born in 1975 in Dublin. He is the author of the novels An Evening of Long Goodbyes, which was short-listed for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Skippy Dies (2010) was long-listed for the 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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: 656 S.
ISBN-13: 9780374600303
ISBN-10: 0374600309
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Murray, Paul
Hersteller: Macmillan USA
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Abbildungen: Printed Endpapers
Maße: 232 x 153 x 55 mm
Von/Mit: Paul Murray
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.08.2023
Gewicht: 0,825 kg
Artikel-ID: 124023645
Über den Autor
Paul Murray was born in 1975 in Dublin. He is the author of the novels An Evening of Long Goodbyes, which was short-listed for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Skippy Dies (2010) was long-listed for the 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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: 656 S.
ISBN-13: 9780374600303
ISBN-10: 0374600309
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Murray, Paul
Hersteller: Macmillan USA
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Abbildungen: Printed Endpapers
Maße: 232 x 153 x 55 mm
Von/Mit: Paul Murray
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.08.2023
Gewicht: 0,825 kg
Artikel-ID: 124023645
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