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Skippy Dies

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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
Sunday Times
One of the most enjoyable, funny and moving reads of this year. A rare tragicomedy that's both genuinely tragic and genuinely comic
Guardian
Darkly comic, dazzles, every line drips ideas for fun. Unputdownably funny, captivating. A masterpiece
Metro
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
Sunday Express
Hilarious, heartbreaking, totally engrossing. A triumph
Daily Mail
Noisy, hilarious, tragic, endlessly inventive, plain brilliant. A carnival of a novel
The Times
Marvellous, witty, heartbreaking, intensely moving, excellent. The writing is second to none, the banter brilliant. Crazy, but beautiful
Daily Telegraph
Savagely funny, brimful of wit, energy, poetry and vision, unflaggingly entertaining. A triumph
The Sunday Times
Hilarious, heartbreaking, totally engrossing. A triumph
Metro
Author Paul Murray
Narrator Patrick Moy
Duration 21 hours and 2 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9780141970578
Format Audiobook
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Genre Humorous fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
Availability AU, GB, IE

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