Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Skippy Dies A Novel
Author(s): Murray Paul
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780865478619
Pages: 672 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/30/2011
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction