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Skippy Dies - Paul Murray, author, reading this Friday
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23-05-2011 6:22pm#1Hi folks,
Just another heads up on a free author reading. It takes place this Friday in the Central Library, ILAC Centre. You can see the details after this link.
It was a very well received book, earning a place in the shortlist for the Costa Book Awards, the longlist for the Man Booker Prize and a place in the finals for the (U.S.) National book Critics Circle Award. On top of all that it came third in Time magazine’s ‘Top 10 fiction books of 2010".
You can check out these reviews from the Sunday Times, New York Times and the Guardian If you fancy reading an extract you’ll find one here on the publishers blurb page along with an author biography and various published praise for the book.
Skippy is Daniel "Skippy" Juster, so nicknamed because of his unfortunate resemblance to a certain TV kangaroo. He's a boarder at Seabrook College, an expensive Catholic school in Dublin, and is at that unfortunate age where "suddenly everyone was tall and gangling and talking about drinking and sperm. Walking among them is like *being in a BO-smelling forest."
Skippy's best friend is the corpulent computer genius Ruprecht, and the novel opens with Ruprecht and Skippy having a doughnut-eating race at Ed's, the local hangout for Seabrook students. To Ruprecht's baffled horror, Skippy collapses off his chair. He isn't choking, but there's nothing Ruprecht can do except watch as Skippy writes "Tell Lori" on the floor in doughnut jam before expiring.0
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