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  • 2023
  • First American edition.

The bee sting

Paul Murray, (1975-)

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"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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Title Statement The bee sting / Paul Murray.
Author Murray, Paul, 1975-
Publication New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,2023.
Edition First American edition.
Extent of Item 645 pages ;
ISBN 9780374600303 (hardcover)
Other Number pr07318140
General Notes Originally published: London : Hamish Hamilton, 2023.
Summary "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?"--
Subjects & Genres
By Topic Bunkers (Fortification)--Fiction
Dysfunctional families--Fiction
Families--Fiction
Finance, Personal--Fiction
Fortune--Fiction
By Location Ireland--Fiction
By Genre Domestic fiction
Humorous fiction
Psychological fiction
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