# Skippy Dies

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- Book: [Skippy Dies](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-murray/skippy-dies) ([Skippy Dies.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-murray/skippy-dies.md))
- Authors: [Paul Murray](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-murray)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 21 h 2 min
- Narrated by: Patrick Moy
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-057-8
- Published: 2011-04-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 21 h 2 min

## Description

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Paul Murray's hilarious book, Skippy Dies. Read by the actor Patrick Moy. '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. 'Noisy, hilarious, tragic, endlessly inventive, plain brilliant. A carnival of a novel ' The Times