From the author of Skippy Dies comes a dazzlingly intricate and poignant tragicomedy about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good man at the end of the world. The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's car business is going under, but instead of doing anything about it, he's out in the
Paul Murray's Skippy Dies is a tragicomic masterpiece about a Dublin boarding school
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010
Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel 'Skippy' Juster is his