03788cam a2200505 4500 1673300362 TxAuBib 20241024120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780374600310 0374600317 B0BBC9K8C3 Amazon 85b85648-aec9-40f0-b819-55802fa7f3f9 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9191384 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Murray, Paul T. The Bee Sting [Libby]. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. literary fiction. teenagers. irish authors. marriage. Coming of age. funny. Ireland. Siblings. Family Saga . Humorous. Irish literature. prepper. Tragicomedy. beesting. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4245kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<p><b>One of</b> <b><i>The New York Times</i> T</b><b>op 10 Books of the Year</b><br /> <b>Winner of the</b> <b>An Post Irish Book of the Year,</b> <b>the Nero Gold Prize, and the Nero Book Award for Fiction</b><br /> <b>Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Writers' Prize for Fiction</b><br /> <b>Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction</b><br /> <b>One of <i>The New Yorker</i>'s Essential Reads of 2023. One of <i>The Washington Post's</i> 10 Best Books of 2023. One of <i>TIME's</i> 10 Best Fiction Books of the Year.</b> <b>Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, <i>The Guardian</i>, <i>The Economist</i>, New York Public Library,</b> <b><i>BBC</i>,</b> <b>and more.<br /></b><b>From the author of <i>Skippy Dies</i> comes Paul Murray's <i>The Bee Sting</i>, 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.</b><br /> 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.<br /> 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?<br /> <i>The Bee Sting</i>, 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.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Man Booker Prize for Fiction Nominee. 10 Best Books of 2023. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-10-24 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=85b85648-aec9-40f0-b819-55802fa7f3f9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=85b85648-aec9-40f0-b819-55802fa7f3f9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=85b85648-aec9-40f0-b819-55802fa7f3f9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)