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Skippy dies : [a novel] / Paul Murray.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780865479432
- ISBN: 0865479437
- ISBN: 9780865479487
- ISBN: 0865479488
- Physical Description: 661 p. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st American ed.
- Publisher: New York : Faber & Faber, 2010.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Subtitle from cover. |
| Summary, etc.: | 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? |
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| Subject: | Teenage boys > Fiction. Private schools > Fiction. Death > Fiction. Dublin (Ireland) > Fiction. |
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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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