Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers Book Award 2011.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 19 May 2011.
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2010.
If you took The History Boys by Alan Bennett, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess plus any of the Wilt books by Tom Sharpe and threw them at the wall so hard that their pages ripped and flapped to the floor in one chaotic heap, then you might find this book. If you found the exercise fun and funny, then this is a definite read for you.
Idiosyncratic, irreverent, witty, playful, amusing, aggressive, insightful, original - this is a book that is hard to define but, at the same time, to which we can all relate.
In short, it is a maverick. Don't skip it!
Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search for 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.
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel 'Skippy' Juster is his roommate.
Skippy Dies features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Book Club Recommendations, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
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Skippy Dies was written by Paul Murray and published by Penguin Books Ltd
Skippy Dies has 660 pages
£9.89, reduced from £10.99. In Stock.
