EDITORIAL REVIEW: Why does Skippy, a fourteen-year-old boy at Dublinβs 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, an overweight genius who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe u
Skippy Dies
β Scribed by Paul Murray; Paul Murray
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing;Hamish Hamilton, Penguin
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 427 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
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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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
Why does Skippy, a fourteen-year-old boy at Dublins 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, an overweight genius who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-dimension
**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010** **** **'An unforgettably exuberant saga' Emma Donoghue,_Daily Telegraph_** **** **'A comic epic. Murray is a brilliant comic writer, but also humane and touching' David Nicholls,_Guardian_** 'Skippy and Ruprecht are having a doughnut-eating race one
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Why does Skippy, a fourteen-year-old boy at Dublinβs 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, an overweight genius who is determined to open a portal into a par
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Why does Skippy, a fourteen-year-old boy at Dublinβs 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, an overweight genius who is determined to open a portal into a par