{"product_id":"skippy-dies","title":"Skippy Dies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of THE BEE STING, a New York Times Top 10 Best Books of the Year and shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe bestselling and critically acclaimed novel from Paul Murray, \u003ci\u003eSkippy Dies\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the 2010 Costa Book Awards, longlisted for the 2010 Booker Prize, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Could it involve Carl, the teenage drug dealer and borderline psychotic who is Skippy's rival in love? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Or could \"the Automator\"--the ruthless, smooth-talking headmaster intent on modernizing the school--have something to hide? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 basketball playing 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, \u003ci\u003eSkippy Dies \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Couverture souple","offer_id":46295460413650,"sku":"9780865478619","price":28.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_3d0b1f46-6b6d-48bf-ac59-27582bd089dc.jpg?v=1763719190","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/fr\/products\/skippy-dies","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}