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Skippy Dies [3-Volume Boxed Set]: A Novel
Skippy Dies A Novel - 3-Volume Boxed Set Author:Paul Murray 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? — 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 ... more »teenage drug dealer and borderline psychotic who is Skippy?s rival in love?
Or could the Automator?the 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.« less