Skippy Dies
«Savagely funny, brimful of wit, energy, poetry and vision, unflaggingly entertaining. A triumph»
Sunday Times
Paul Murray's Skippy Dies is a tragicomic masterpiece about a Dublin boarding schoolLonglisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 672
- ISBN
- 9780141009957
- Utgivelsesår
- 2011
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
- Priser
- Short-listed for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2010 and Costa Novel Award 2010.
Anmeldelser
«Savagely funny, brimful of wit, energy, poetry and vision, unflaggingly entertaining. A triumph»
Sunday Times
«One of the most enjoyable, funny and moving reads of this year. A rare tragicomedy that's both genuinely tragic and genuinely comic»
Guardian
«Darkly comic, dazzles, every line drips ideas for fun. Unputdownably funny, captivating. A masterpiece»
Metro
«Ambitious, wise, funny, fiercely intelligent. The beauty of this cynical, hopeful, beautifully written book is that it builds a detailed world to explore life, the universe and everything»
Sunday Express
«Hilarious, heartbreaking, totally engrossing. A triumph»
Daily Mail
«Noisy, hilarious, tragic, endlessly inventive, plain brilliant. A carnival of a novel»
The Times
«Extravagantly entertaining»
New York Times Book Review
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Novels rarely come as funny and as moving as this utterly brilliant
» Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
exploration of teenhood and the anticlimax of becoming an adult . . . Skippy Dies is intuitive, truthful and one of the finest comic novels written anywhere. Dies? Never! Skippy lives
«I loved Skippy Dies . . . three novels fused into one ignited tragicomic tour de force»
Ali Smith, Times Literary Supplement
«Murray's writing has earned a place in the contemporary international canon . . . Murray's characters are so three-dimensionally drawn and brought to such vivid life that they may haunt your dreams»
Irish Independent