The Bee Sting [electronic resource]
Murray, Paul2023
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THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING NOVEL FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING COMEDIC WRITERS 'A tragicomic triumph. You won't read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year' Guardian ____________ The Barnes family are in trouble. Until recently they ran the biggest business in town, now they're teetering on the brink of bankruptcy – and that's just the start of their problems. Dickie and Imelda's marriage is hanging by a thread; straight-A student Cass is careening off the rails; PJ is hopelessly in debt to the school bully. Meanwhile the ghosts of old mistakes are rising out of the past to meet them, but everyone's too wrapped up in the present to see the danger looming . . . ____________ 'Generous, immersive, sharp-witted and devastating; the sort of novel that becomes a friend for life' Financial Times 'Paul Murray [is] the undisputed reigning champion of epic Irish tragicomedy' Spectator 'An instant classic' Washington Post '[An] astute, remorselessly funny novel' Daily Mirror 'A wagyu steak of a novel . . . A classic in the mode of The Corrections' The Times ____________ WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023 WINNER OF THE SKY ARTS AWARD FOR LITERATURE 2024 WINNER OF AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023
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The Bee Sting [electronic resource] / Paul Murray
Author:
Murray, Paul, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin Books Ltd, 2023
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Paul Murray was born in Dublin in 1975 and is the author of An Evening of Long Goodbyes, Skippy Dies, The Mark and the Void and The Bee Sting. An Evening of Long Goodbyes was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and nominated for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Skippy Dies was shortlisted for the Costa Novel award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and longlisted for the Booker Prize. The Mark and the Void won the Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2016. The Bee Sting was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023. Paul Murray lives in Dublin.
Awards:
Man Booker Prize for Fiction Nominee (The Booker Prize Foundation)10 Best Books of 2023 (The New York Times)
ISBN:
9780241984413
Language:
English
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BRN:
2780862
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