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The Bee StingFrom the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and thought provoking tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart. The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickies once lucrative car business is going underbut Dickie is spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife, Imelda, is selling off her

and in much the same way as her career

and intimacy in all its myriad forms

The food may run out before the flaky crescent pastries of Prune Town

learn about the best-traveling cheeses

may be enough to save them in the end

and yet he cannot avoid the realization that for all her outward misery

Translated by Christina MacSweeney

the Binses are determined to leave no garbage bin unturned in their pursuit of the tastiest

and wholeness in adulthood

Persephone feels intense guilt over the official breakup between Hades and Minthe

Yet it is hard to tell what

Accompanying the highly personal images and texts from Coppola's archive is an extended interview with renowned film journalist Lynn Hirschberg discussing the remarkable oeuvre they reflect

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