{"product_id":"skippy-dies-paul-murray-9780865478619","title":"Skippy Dies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of THE BEE STING, a New York Times Top 10 Best Books of the Year and shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe bestselling and critically acclaimed novel from Paul Murray, \u003ci\u003eSkippy Dies\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the 2010 Costa Book Awards, longlisted for the 2010 Booker Prize, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Why does Skippy, a fourteen-year-old boy at Dublin's venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut shop? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Could it involve Carl, the teenage drug dealer and borderline psychotic who is Skippy's rival in love? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Or could \"the Automator\"--the ruthless, smooth-talking headmaster intent on modernizing the school--have something to hide? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 basketball playing 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, \u003ci\u003eSkippy Dies \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Murray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0865478619\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780865478619\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/30\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.57w x 1.12d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/09\/2011 pg. 34\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/09\/2011 pg. 30","brand":"Paul Murray","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046001242367,"sku":"9780865478619","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2e39855c-41a8-467c-b040-b47f8469cfad.jpg?v=1684982040","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/skippy-dies-paul-murray-9780865478619","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}