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1 online resource (645 pages) |
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Longlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeFrom 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 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 through 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? |
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Families -- Fiction.
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Finance, Personal -- Fiction.
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Fortune -- Fiction.
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Bunkers (Fortification) -- Fiction.
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Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
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Ireland -- Fiction.
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Novels.
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Electronic books.
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Domestic fiction.
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Humorous fiction.
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Psychological fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Murray, Paul, 1975- Bee sting [London] : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2023 9780241353950 |
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Murray, Paul, 1975- Bee sting New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023 9780374600303 (DLC) 2023003418 |
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9780374600310 |
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0374600317 |
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