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«Il passato è così, vero? Credi di essertelo lasciato alle spalle, poi un giorno entri in una stanza e lo trovi lì ad aspettarti». Un irresistibile romanzo famigliare di desideri, solitudini e macerie senza fine ma, forse, con un inizio preciso. La famiglia Barnes è nei guai. La concessionaria di Dickie sta per fallire, ma lui, invece di affrontare la situazione, trascorre le giornate costruendo un bunker a prova di apocalisse. La moglie Imelda, nel frattempo, si è messa a vendere i gioielli su eBay, la figlia adolescente Cass, ex prima della classe, sembra voler sabotare la sua carriera scolastica e PJ, il figlio dodicenne, sta allestendo un piano per scappare di casa. Che cosa è andato storto per i Barnes, al punto da mandare tutto in rovina? Al tempo stesso affresco famigliare e ritratto della contemporaneità, "Il giorno dell'ape" è un indimenticabile tour de force pieno di umorismo e calore umano.
- ISBN: 8806263722
- Casa Editrice: Einaudi
- Pagine: 664
- Data di uscita: 28-01-2025
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Ooft. Such a disappointment! This absolute brick of a book just went on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. For two months, I stuck with it because I'm a nosy bastard, and I couldn't stand not to know what happened to Dickie and co. Turns out, Paul Murray kept the ending deliberately a Leggi tutto
1) After the horrible misstep of The Mark and the Void I am so happy to report that Paul Murray is BACK. Skippy Dies is one of my all time favourite novels and I knew it couldn’t be a one-off, and here is the proof. 2) Paul Murray has a rare, exquisite gift for writing about kids and the way they th Leggi tutto
no one talk to me. i need to lay facedown with fairytale of new york on repeat and think about this book until i feel better. i physically couldn't put this book down. not in the can't get enough way you say when you mean "i loved this book so much." i couldn't put it down because when i did i got so Leggi tutto
The Bee Sting is a caustic family chronicle… A saga of a family gradually growing dysfunctional… Three generations… Four narrators… Cass … A daughter is a teenage schoolgirl… She and her friend are full of sweet dreams and far-reaching plans… On the way home Elaine told Cass she was going to post her p Leggi tutto
Two decades ago, the Irish writer Paul Murray started his career by publishing “An Evening of Long Goodbyes,” a book that has remained one of this century’s greatest comedies. With this month’s publication of “The Bee Sting,” Murray has written a book that could remain one of its greatest novels. He Leggi tutto
In the next town over, a man had killed his family. He’d nailed the doors shut so they couldn’t get out; the neighbours heard them running through the rooms, screaming for mercy. When he had finished he turned the gun on himself.Everyone was talking about it – about what kind of man could do such Leggi tutto
4.5 Mostly a thoroughly enjoyable 5-star read with a disorienting dip in the 3rd quarter that eventually righted itself. But the ending frustrated me to the point of almost erasing all pleasure from the story. After immersing us so much in these lives, the culminating event at the end gave me zero s Leggi tutto
Winner of the inaugural Sky Arts Awards Literature category Winner of the inaugural Nero Gold Award - Book of the Year 2023 Winner of the inaugural Nero Book Awards Fiction category as I predicted pre shortlist Winner of the Irish Book of The Year Award Shortlisted for the 2024 Writers Prize. Shortliste Leggi tutto
“I’m changing the truth.” Let me start, though, at the end. And at the end, my fugitive heart flew out of my delicate chest and expanded, inflated, soared on puffy wings and a pagan prayer. The end. I’d rather finish there than spoil it for readers, as every single page bulges with new discoveries an Leggi tutto
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