Paul Murray is a former bookseller whose first novel, An Evening of Long Goodbyes, was shortlisted for the Whitbread. His second is a tragic comedy set in a Dublin Catholic boarding school, where Daniel “Skippy" Juster dies during a doughnut eating race.
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?
Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, an overweight genius who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-dimensional string theory?
Could it involve Carl, the teenage drug dealer and borderline psychotic who is Skippy’s rival in love?
Or could the Automator”the ruthless, smooth-talking headmaster intent on modernizing the schoolhave something to hide?
Why Skippy dies and what happens next is the subject of this dazzling and uproarious novel, unraveling a mystery that links the boys of Seabrook College to their parents and teachers in ways nobody could have imagined. With a cast of characters that ranges from hip-hop-loving fourteen-year-old Eoin MC Sexecutioner” Flynn to basketballplaying midget Philip Kilfether, packed with questions and answers on everything from Ritalin, to M-theory, to bungee jumping, to the hidden meaning of the poetry of Robert Frost, Skippy Dies is a heartfelt, hilarious portrait of the pain, joy, and occasional beauty of adolescence, and a tragic depiction of a world always happy to sacrifice its weakest members. As the twenty-first century enters its teenage years, this is a breathtaking novel from a young writer who will come to define his generation.
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評分Ghost, Come Back Again 人鬼情未瞭,再一次相會吧! By DAN KOIS 丹.柯伊斯 翻譯:豪華王子 A boarding school in the British Isles . Reverent children huddle in a gloomy chamber, watching as one of their fellow students assays a devilishly difficult trick. Th...
評分Ghost, Come Back Again 人鬼情未瞭,再一次相會吧! By DAN KOIS 丹.柯伊斯 翻譯:豪華王子 A boarding school in the British Isles . Reverent children huddle in a gloomy chamber, watching as one of their fellow students assays a devilishly difficult trick. Th...
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Skippy Dies 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載