Paul Murray
The Bee Sting
The Bee Sting
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"The Bunker" is a tragicomic novel by Murray that was awarded the Nero Book Award for Fiction 2023, the An Post Irish Book of the Year 2023, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023, the Writers Prize for Fiction 2024, and several other awards. The novel follows the Barnes family as they face financial and personal struggles, including the collapse of Dickie's car business, Imelda's selling off of her jewelry, Cass's binge-drinking, and PJ's plan to run away from home. The book has received widespread critical acclaim, with critics praising its humor, thought-provoking themes, and expansive scope.
Format: Hardback
Length: 656 pages
Publication date: 08 June 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Winner of the Nero Book Award for Fiction 2023
Winner of the An Post Irish Book of the Year 2023
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023
Shortlisted for the Writers Prize for Fiction 2024
One of Sarah Jessica Parker's Best Books of 2023
Book of the Year 2023, according to various prestigious publications such as the New York Times, New Yorker, The Sunday Times, The Economist, Observer, Guardian, Washington Post, Lit Hub, TIME magazine, Irish Times, The Oldie, Daily Mail, i Paper, Independent, The Standard, The Times, Kirkus, Daily Express, and City A.M.
From one of our greatest comic novelists and the author of Skippy Dies, comes a funny, thought-provoking story of one family desperately clinging on as their world falls apart. . . .
A tragicomic triumph. You won't read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year.
Guardian
The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under, but rather than face the music, he's 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 while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way to her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to his grand plan to run away from home.
Where did it all go wrong? A patch of ice on the tarmac, a casual favor to a charming stranger, a bee caught beneath a bridal veil? Can a single moment of bad luck change the direction of a life? And if the story has already been written - is there still time to find a happy ending?
‘The finest novel that Murray has yet written. . . will surely be one of the books of 2023
Sunday Independent
Murray is a natural storyteller. . . . Ambitious, expansive, hugely entertaining tragicomic fiction.
Irish Times
It's a thing.
Weight: 852g
Dimension: 164 x 244 x 47 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241353950
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