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Skippy Dies Paperback - 2011

by Paul Murray

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"Skippy is so desperately, painfully alive that you hope the mere act of reading about him will save him . . . A virtuosic display you'd expect from a writer with the confidence to kill off his title character in the title."--Radhika Jones, "TIME."

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From the author of THE BEE STING, a New York Times Top 10 Best Books of the Year and shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize.

The bestselling and critically acclaimed novel from Paul Murray, Skippy Dies, shortlisted for the 2010 Costa Book Awards, longlisted for the 2010 Booker Prize, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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 basketball playing 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 Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 672
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York
  • Publication date 2011-08-30
  • ISBN 9780865478619 / 0865478619
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 1.3 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Cultural Region: Ireland
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Humorous fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Entertainment Weekly, 12/09/2011, Page 30
  • New York Times Book Review, 10/09/2011, Page 34

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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