Ford has written these books in the first-person present tense. Ford’s hands, clichés become koans, simultaneously resonant and hollow depending on one’s fortunes at the time, and to Frank they double as sound, practical counsel and bitter jokes. Ford’s tendency to write in chin-stroking proverbs has brought him critics.but what’s important is less the truth of these utterances than the extent to which Frank relies on them. Murray creates a heightened but truthful portrait of family love.\ In the faltering mixture of candor and deception, helplessness and desperate prevention, Mr. But by this point, we have spent so much time with the characters that our investment in their lives has been vouchsafed. It’s only in a final coup de theatre, when coincidences bring about a literal four-way collision, that the drama feels heavy-handed, manipulated rather than organically unfolding. Murray advances the stories of the characters individually and then collectively, in a bravura final section that draws all four together. Through a succession of suspenseful twists and feints, Mr. So richly detailed is The Bee Sting that it reads like four books woven into one.
Murray has always been able to dazzle and entertain, but he has never before developed characters with this much depth or capacity for tragedy. the new novel, while frequently funny, has more serious intentions.
Rave The Wall Street Journal \"To note that this novel is Irish is to call up another, more flattering generalization: stylistically it’s outstanding, defined by supple, engaging prose and a preternatural sense for storytelling.
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