The novel, by the author of “An Evening of Long Goodbyes,” is longlisted for the Booker Prize.
He was hardly sitting still between these two triumphs. In 2010, “Skippy Dies” was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and in 2016, “The Mark and the Void” was joint winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, a British award for comic literature.
Dickie’s dealership is certainly suffering along with the general economy, but its challenges and his are exacerbated by decisions he cannot admit to anyone. Even the nature of his marriage is more fraught than he’s willing to confess. And for all her hard-boiled advice about coming clean, Imelda carries her own secrets, which include that legendary bee that got caught under her veil on her wedding day.
Considering the impressive length of “The Bee Sting,” it’s remarkable to witness its sentence-by-sentence elegance. Every paragraph is marked by Murray’s stylistic brilliance — and. Indeed, if you’re still grumpy about the way some modern writers eschew quotation marks, brace yourself: A significant chunk of “The Bee Sting” contains. Yes, that’s irritating for a time, but if you persist, these pages will quickly teach you how to read them.
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