Skippy Dies
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  • Published: 7 April 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141970578
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $27.99

Skippy Dies

From the author of The Bee Sting

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9 Jun 2011
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1 Mar 2010
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7 Apr 2011
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'Marvellous, witty, heartbreaking, intensely moving, excellent. The writing is second to none, the banter brilliant. Crazy, but beautiful' Daily Telegraph

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Paul Murray's hilarious book, Skippy Dies. Read by the actor Patrick Moy.

'Skippy 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 Dublin's 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.

'Noisy, hilarious, tragic, endlessly inventive, plain brilliant. A carnival of a novel' The Times
  • Published: 7 April 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141970578
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $27.99
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About the author

Paul Murray

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.

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Also by Paul Murray

The Bee Sting
The Mark and the Void
An Evening of Long Goodbyes
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Praise for Skippy Dies

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 that's 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

One of the most enjoyable, funny and moving reads of this year. A rare tragicomedy that's both genuinely tragic and genuinely comic

Guardian

Marvellous, witty, heartbreaking, intensely moving, excellent. The writing is second to none, the banter brilliant. Crazy, but beautiful

Daily Telegraph

Savagely funny, brimful of wit, energy, poetry and vision, unflaggingly entertaining. A triumph

The Sunday Times

Hilarious, heartbreaking, totally engrossing. A triumph

Metro