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Title: Skippy Dies
Author: MURRAY PAUL
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 27/06/2011
Imprint: PENGUIN BOOKS
Price: $28.00
Publishing status: Active
‘A blast of a book . . . big, generous, heartfelt, funny and sad’ Irish Times
‘Marvellous, witty, heartbreaking, intensely moving, excellent. The writing is second to none, the banter brilliant. Crazy, but beautiful’ Daily Telegraph
‘Skippy and Ruprecht are having a doughnut-eating race one evening when Skippy turns purple and falls off his chair . . .’
And so begins this epic, tragic, comic, brilliant novel set in and around Dublin’s Seabrook College for Boys. Principally concerning the lives, loves, mistakes and triumphs of overweight maths-whiz Ruprecht Van Doren and his roommate Daniel ‘Skippy’ Juster, it features a frisbee-throwing siren called Lori, the joys (and horrors) of first love, the blatant misuse of prescription drugs, Carl (the official school psychopath), various attempts to unravel string theory . . . while at the same time exploring the very deepest mysteries of the human heart.
‘Hilarious, heartbreaking, totally engrossing. A triumph’ Daily Mail
‘Ambitious, wise, funny, fiercely intelligent. The beauty of this cynical, hopeful, beautifully written book is that it builds a detailed world to explore life, the
ISBN: 9780141009957
Pages: 672
Edition: 01