03065cam a2200481 4500 947760457 TxAuBib 20230825120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780374600310 0374600317 B0BBC9K8C3 Amazon 85b85648-aec9-40f0-b819-55802fa7f3f9 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9191384 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Murray, Paul. The Bee Sting [Libby eBook]. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4501kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. literary fiction. Irish literature. irish authors. Coming of age. Family Saga . Tragicomedy. teenagers. marriage. Siblings. Humorous. beesting. Ireland. prepper. funny. HTML:<p><b>Longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize</b><br /> <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>. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-08-24 20:00:02. 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)