Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2010.
Costa Book Awards 2010 Judges' comment: "Profound, challenging and shocking - a generous romp with a tender heart. Murray does a tremendous job of penetrating the adolescent psyche."
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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 Hamish Hamilton Ltd an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
