The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Cormier
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Memory, Brothers and sisters, Death or dying, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Medical ethics, Hospitals, Isolation
The Bumblebee Flies Anyway has another institutional setting (a hospital, as in I Am the Cheese), but there is perhaps a larger glimmer of hope, for the focus of the novel is on the meaning that the individual can make of his own life, in spite of overwhelming odds—in this case, imminent death.
As in I Am the Cheese, the tension is almost unbearable. Barney Snow is in “the Complex,” his name for a hospital for the incurably ill, but he does not know why he is there, for he is clearly not ill. All he knows for certain is that he is part of an...
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