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Skippy Dies

✍ 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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✦ 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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**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

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