[ad_1] In “The Bee Sting,” the fourth novel by the Irish author Paul Murray, twelve-year-old PJ Barnes ponders the downsides of resurrection. He recently saw “Pet Sematary,” Stephen King’s horror film about a graveyard that disgorges its occupants and sends them back into the world. “When things come back,” PJ observes, “very often they come… Continue reading “The Bee Sting,” a Family Saga of Desperation and Denial
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Review: Paul Murray’s masterful family novel ‘The Bee Sting’
[ad_1] Review The Bee Sting By Paul MurrayFSG: 656 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Since it was published in 2010, Paul Murray’s second novel, “Skippy Dies,” has rightly earned a reputation as one of the best English-language… Continue reading Review: Paul Murray’s masterful family novel ‘The Bee Sting’