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!
| 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. In the grand old Dublin institution that is Seabrook College for Boys, nobody pays either of them much attention. But when Skippy falls for Lori, the frisbee-playing Siren from the girls' school next door, suddenly all kinds of people take an interest - including Carl, part-time drug-dealer and official school psychopath ...A tragic comedy of epic sweep and dimension, Skippy Dies scours the corners of the human heart and wrings every drop of pathos, humour and hopelessness out of life, love, Robert Graves, mermaids, M-theory, and everything in between.
Skippy Dies features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Book Club Recommendations, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Skippy Dies is available in Paperback
Skippy Dies was written by Paul Murray and published by Penguin Books Ltd
Skippy Dies has 660 pages
£9.89
