Skippy Dies -- Paul Murray, Paperback
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?
Author: Paul Murray
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 08/30/2011
Pages: 672
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.57w x 1.12d
ISBN: 9780865478619
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 10/09/2011 pg. 34
Entertainment Weekly 12/09/2011 pg. 30
About the Author
Paul Murray was born in 1975. He studied English literature at Trinity College in Dublin and creative writing at the University of East Anglia. His first novel, An Evening of Long Goodbyes, was short-listed for the Whitbread Prize in 2003 and was nominated for the Kerry Irish Fiction Award. Skippy Dies, his second novel, was long-listed for the Booker prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.