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Skippy dies : [a novel]  Cover Image Book Book

Skippy dies : [a novel] / Paul Murray.

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  • ISBN: 9780865479432
  • ISBN: 0865479437
  • ISBN: 9780865479487
  • ISBN: 0865479488
  • Physical Description: 661 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st American ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Faber & Faber, 2010.

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Why does Skippy, a student at Dublin's venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut shop? Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-dimensional string theory? Or Carl, the teenage drug dealer who is Skippy's rival in love?
Subject: Teenage boys > Fiction.
Private schools > Fiction.
Death > Fiction.
Dublin (Ireland) > Fiction.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Main Fiction Murray (Text) 31307019524265 Fiction Checked out 06/23/2025

Syndetic Solutions - Author Notes for ISBN Number 9780865479432
Skippy Dies
Skippy Dies
by Murray, Paul
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Author Notes

Skippy Dies

Paul Murray was born in 1975. He studied English literature at Trinity College in Dublin and creative writing at the University of East Anglia. His first novel, An Evening of Long Goodbyes , was short-listed for the Whitbread Prize in 2003 and was nominated for the Kerry Irish Fiction Award. Skippy Dies , his second novel, was long-listed for the Booker prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.


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