Skippy Dies
- Author Paul Murray
- Narrator Patrick Moy
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date 1 January 1970
- Run Time 21 hours and 2 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Humorous fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss.
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What to expect
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
Critics Review
Savagely funny, brimful of wit, energy, poetry and vision, unflaggingly entertaining. A triumph
One of the most enjoyable, funny and moving reads of this year. A rare tragicomedy that’s both genuinely tragic and genuinely comic
Darkly comic, dazzles, every line drips ideas for fun. Unputdownably funny, captivating. A masterpiece
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
Hilarious, heartbreaking, totally engrossing. A triumph
Noisy, hilarious, tragic, endlessly inventive, plain brilliant. A carnival of a novel
Marvellous, witty, heartbreaking, intensely moving, excellent. The writing is second to none, the banter brilliant. Crazy, but beautiful
Savagely funny, brimful of wit, energy, poetry and vision, unflaggingly entertaining. A triumph
Hilarious, heartbreaking, totally engrossing. A triumph
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