Skippy Dies
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2010. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010
(Sprache: Englisch)
Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel 'Skippy' Juster is his roommate. In the grand old Dublin institution that is Seabrook College for Boys, nobody...
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Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel 'Skippy' Juster is his roommate. In the grand old Dublin institution that is Seabrook College for Boys, nobody pays either of them much attention. But when Skippy falls for Lori, the frisbee-playing Siren from the girls' school next door, suddenly all kinds of people take an interest - including Carl, part-time drug-dealer and official school psychopath ...
A tragic comedy of epic sweep and dimension, "Skippy Dies" scours the corners of the human heart and wrings every drop of pathos, humour and hopelessness out of life, love, Robert Graves, mermaids, M-theory, and everything in between.
A tragic comedy of epic sweep and dimension, "Skippy Dies" scours the corners of the human heart and wrings every drop of pathos, humour and hopelessness out of life, love, Robert Graves, mermaids, M-theory, and everything in between.
Autoren-Porträt von Paul Murray
Paul Murray, geb. 1975, studierte Englische Literatur am Trinity College in Dublin. Er schloss in Creative Writing an der Universität East Anglia ab und arbeitete als Buchhändler. Er lebt in Dublin. Sein Roman 'An Evening of Long Good Byes' stand auf der Shortlist für den renommierten Whitbread Price.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Paul Murray
- 2010, Maße: 13,6 x 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Hamish Hamilton
- ISBN-10: 0241144973
- ISBN-13: 9780241144978
Sprache:
Englisch
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