Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/234060to listen full audiobooks. Title: Skippy Dies: From the author of The Bee Sting Author: Paul Murray Narrator: Patrick Moy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 2 minutes Release date: April 7, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 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

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