Skippy Dies: From the author of The Bee Sting by Paul Murray (English) Paperback

Description: Skippy Dies by Paul Murray 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Marvellous, witty, heartbreaking, intensely moving, excellent. The writing is second to none, the banter brilliant. Crazy, but beautiful Daily TelegraphSkippy and Ruprecht are having a doughnut-eating race one evening when Skippy turns purple and falls off his chair . . .And so begins this epic, tragic, comic, brilliant novel set in and around Dublins Seabrook College for Boys. Principally concerning the lives, loves, mistakes and triumphs of overweight maths-whiz Ruprecht Van Doren and his roommate Daniel Skippy Juster, it features a frisbee-throwing siren called Lori, the joys (and horrors) of first love, the use and blatant misuse of prescription drugs, Carl (the official school psychopath), various attempts to unravel string theory . . . while at the same time exploring the very deepest mysteries of the human heart. Notes This wildly funny, poignant and moving novel about love, loss and the horrors of adolescence was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, brilliantly reviewed and is now in paperback. Marvellous, witty, heartbreaking, intensely moving, excellent. The writing is second to none, the banter brilliant. Crazy, but beautiful Daily Telegraph Author Biography 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. Review 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 thats 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 brilliantexploration 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 * Irish Times *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 *A comic epic. Murray is a brilliant comic writer, but also humane and touching, and he captures the misery and elation, joy and anxiety of teenage life. A brilliant depiction of the heaven and hell of male adolescence * Guardian *Murrays writing has earned a place in the contemporary international canon . . . Murrays characters are so three-dimensionally drawn and brought to such vivid life that they may haunt your dreams * Irish Independent * Prizes Short-listed for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2010 Short-listed for Costa Novel Award 2010 Review Text Savagely funny, brimful of wit, energy, poetry and vision, unflaggingly entertaining. A triumph Review Quote Savagely funny, brimful of wit, energy, poetry and vision, unflaggingly entertaining. A triumph Details ISBN0141009950 Author Paul Murray ISBN-10 0141009950 ISBN-13 9780141009957 Format Paperback Pages 672 Imprint Penguin Books Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.92 Media Book Language English Short Title SKIPPY DIES UK Release Date 2011-04-07 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 2011 Publication Date 2011-04-07 Audience General NZ Release Date 2011-06-08 AU Release Date 2011-06-08 Subtitle From the author of The Bee Sting Alternative 9780141009957 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:3884574;

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