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Skippy Dies

By Paul Murray
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By Paul Murray
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Gorgeously written and unflinchingly hilarious, Skippy Dies is built around a bunch of 14-year-old boys and deftly drifts between the completely serious and the outrageously ridiculous with unmatched tact. Populated by characters that will easily endear themselves to you and a plot that earns the page count, this is a propulsive read, if unusually so.

From the author of THE BEE STING, a New York Times Top 10 Best Books of the Year and shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize.

The bestselling and critically acclaimed novel from Paul Murray, Skippy Dies, shortlisted for the 2010 Costa Book Awards, longlisted for the 2010 Booker Prize, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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 some...

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