The Bee Sting
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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 i...
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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 2023WINNER of THE SKY ARTS AWARD FOR LITERATURE 2024WINNER of AN POST IRISH BOOK of THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 WINNER of THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023WINNER of AN POST IRISH BOOK of THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS’ PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP NOVEL of THE YEAR 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE SKY ARTS AWARDS 2024ONE of SARAH JESSICA PARKER’S BEST BOOKS of 2023Book of the Year 2023 according to 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, City A.M. ''A tragicomic triumph. You won''t read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year'' GuardianThe 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
Detaljer
Forlag
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN
9780241984406
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
656
Udgivelsesdato
02-05-2024
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
3176459
EAN nr.
9780241984406
Varegruppe
Fiction
Højde/Dybde (mm)
44
Bredde (mm)
129
Længde (mm)
199
Vægt (g)
518
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