Skippy Dies - Paul Murray torrent

Category: Adults, Contemporary, Literature, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Comedy dark humor Irish
Written by Paul Murray
Read by Patrick Moy
Format: MP3
Unabridged

Skippy and Ruprecht are having a doughnut-eating race one evening when Skippy turns purple and falls off his chair…..And so begins this epic, tragic, comic, brilliant novel set in and around Dublin’s Seabrook College for Boys. Principally concerning the lives, loves, mistakes and triumphs of overweight maths-whiz Ruprecht Van Doren and his roommate Daniel ‘Skippy’ Juster, it features a Frisbee-throwing siren called Lori, the joys (and horrors) of first love, the use and blatant misuse of prescription drugs, Carl (the official school psychopath), various attempts to unravel string theory… while at the same time exploring the very deepest mysteries of the human heart.

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010 and shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction