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Skippy Dies Hardback - 2010

by Paul Murray

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Why does Skippy, a fourteen-year-old boy at Dublin's venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut shop?
Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, an overweight genius who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-dimensional string theory?
Could it involve Carl, the teenage drug dealer and borderline psychotic who is Skippy's rival in love?
Or could "the Automator"--the ruthless, smooth-talking headmaster intent on modernizing the school--have something to hide?
Why Skippy dies and what happens next is the subject of this dazzling and uproarious novel, unraveling a mystery that links the boys of Seabrook College to their parents and teachers in ways nobody could have imagined. With a cast of characters that ranges from hip-hop-loving fourteen-year-old Eoin "MC Sexecutioner" Flynn to basketballplaying midget Philip Kilfether, packed with questions and answers on everything from Ritalin, to M-theory, to bungee jumping, to the hidden meaning of the poetry of Robert Frost, "Skippy Dies "is a heartfelt, hilarious portrait of the pain, joy, and occasional beauty of adolescence, and a tragic depiction of a world always happy to sacrifice its weakest members. As the twenty-first century enters its teenage years, this is a breathtaking novel from a young writer who will come to define his generation.

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  • Title Skippy Dies
  • Author Paul Murray
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First American E
  • Pages 661
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Faber & Faber, New York, New York
  • Publication date 2010-08
  • ISBN 9780865479432 / 0865479437
  • Weight 1.76 lbs (0.80 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.64 x 6.58 x 1.37 in (21.95 x 16.71 x 3.48 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Humorous fiction, Adolescence
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010926173
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Paul Murray was born in 1975. He studied English literature at Trinity College in Dublin and creative writing at the University of East Anglia. His first novel, "An Evening of Long Goodbyes," was short-listed for the Whitbread Prize in 2003 and was nominated for the Kerry Irish Fiction Award. "Skippy Dies," his second novel, was long-listed for the Booker prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, an overweight genius who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-dimensional string theory?

Could it involve Carl, the teenage drug dealer and borderline psychotic who is Skippy’s rival in love?

Or could “the Automator”—the ruthless, smooth-talking headmaster intent on modernizing the school—have something to hide?

Why Skippy dies and what happens next is the subject of this dazzling and uproarious novel, unraveling a mystery that links the boys of Seabrook College to their parents and teachers in ways nobody could have imagined. With a cast of characters that ranges from hip-hop-loving fourteen-year-old Eoin “MC Sexecutioner” Flynn to basketballplaying midget Philip Kilfether, packed with questions and… Read more
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