Description: Title: Skippy Dies Author: Murray, Paul Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Binding: Paperback Pages: 672 Dimensions: 8.30h x 5.57w x 1.12d Product Weight: 1.12 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780865478619 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. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Book Title: Skippy Dies : a Novel
Number of Pages: 672 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication Year: 2011
Topic: Coming of Age, Literary, Mystery & Detective / General, Humorous / General
Item Height: 1.2 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 17.8 Oz
Author: Paul Murray
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
