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A tragic comedy of epic sweep and dimension, Skippy Dies wrings every last

drop of humour and hopelessness out of life, love, mermaids, M-theory, the

poetry of Robert Graves, and all the mysteries of the human heart.

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 school, have 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 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, 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.