Skippy Dies

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A beloved tragicomic masterpiece- 'Marvellous, witty, heartbreaking. The writing is second to none, the banter brilliant. Crazy, but beautiful' Daily Telegraph

Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search of 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 Skippy falls for Lori, the frisbee-playing siren from the girls' school next door, suddenly all kinds of people take an interest - including Carl, part-time drug-dealer and official school psychopath. . .

A tragic comedy of epic sweep and dimension, Skippy Dies scours the corners of the human heart and wrings every drop of pathos, humour and hopelessness out of life, love, Robert Graves, mermaids, M-theory, and everything in between.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780141009957
Published: April 2011

Number of pages: 672
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 41 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd