Skippy Dies
From the author of The Bee Sting
$30.47
- Paperback
672 pages
- Release Date
9 June 2011
Summary
A beloved tragicomic masterpiece: ‘Marvellous, witty, heartbreaking. The writing is second to none, the banter brilliant. Crazy, but beautiful’ - Daily Telegraph
Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel ‘Skippy’ Juster is his roommate. In the grand old Dublin institution that is Seabrook College for Boys, nobody pays either of them much attention. But when Skippy falls for Lo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141009957 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141009950 |
| Author: | Paul Murray |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 672 |
| Release Date: | 9 June 2011 |
| Weight: | 468g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 41mm |
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Critics Review
Savagely funny, brimful of wit, energy, poetry and vision, unflaggingly entertaining. A triumph
Savagely funny, brimful of wit, energy, poetry and vision, unflaggingly entertaining. A triumph * Sunday Times *
One of the most enjoyable, funny and moving reads of this year. A rare tragicomedy that’s both genuinely tragic and genuinely comic * Guardian *
Darkly comic, dazzles, every line drips ideas for fun. Unputdownably funny, captivating. A masterpiece * Metro *
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 universe and everything * Sunday Express *
Hilarious, heartbreaking, totally engrossing. A triumph * Daily Mail *
Noisy, hilarious, tragic, endlessly inventive, plain brilliant. A carnival of a novel * The Times *
Novels rarely come as funny and as moving as this utterly brilliant
exploration of teenhood and the anticlimax of becoming an adult … Skippy Dies is intuitive, truthful and one of the finest comic novels written anywhere. Dies? Never! Skippy lives
I loved Skippy Dies … three novels fused into one ignited tragicomic tour de force * Times Literary Supplement *
Skippy Dies is one great high-octane fizz bang of a book * Irish Times *
Extravagantly entertaining * New York Times Book Review *
About The Author
Paul Murray
Paul Murray was born in Dublin in 1975 and is the author of An Evening of Long Goodbyes, Skippy Dies, The Mark and the Void and The Bee Sting. An Evening of Long Goodbyes was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and nominated for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Skippy Dies was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and longlisted for the Booker Prize. The Mark and the Void won the Everyman Wodehouse Prize. The Bee Sting won the Nero Book of the Year Award and the An Post Irish Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Writers’ Prize for Fiction and the Kirkus Prize for Fiction. Paul Murray lives in Dublin.
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