Skippy Dies

English

ISBN: 0865479437

EAN: 9780865479432

Category: Fiction / General

Publisher: Faber & Faber, Incorporated

Release Date: 09/06/2010

Synopsis: 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-dimensional string theory? Could it involve Carl, the teenage drug dealer and borderline psychotic who is Skippys rival in love? Or could the Automatorthe ruthless, smooth-talking headmaster intent on modernizing the schoolhave something to hide? Why Skippy dies and what happens next is the subject of this dazzling and uproarious novel, unraveling a mystery that links the boys of Seabrook College to their parents and teachers in ways nobody could have imagined. With a cast of characters that ranges from hip-hop-loving fourteen-year-old Eoin MC Sexecutioner Flynn to basketballplaying midget Philip Kilfether, packed with questions and answers on everything from Ritalin, to M-theory, to bungee jumping, to the hidden meaning of the poetry of Robert Frost, Skippy Dies is a heartfelt, hilarious portrait of the pain, joy, and occasional beauty of adolescence, and a tragic depiction of a world always happy to sacrifice its weakest members. As the twenty-first century enters its teenage years, this is a breathtaking novel from a young writer who will come to define his generation.

Awards: National Book Critics Circle Awards – null  National Book Critics Circle Awards – null 

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Skippy Dies

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.39 inches

Width: 5.93 inches

Length: 8.53 inches

Weight: 16.05 oz

Pages: 672