Sentences with phrase «skippy dies»

Paul Murray: Yes, my agent texted me at seven in the morning last week to say she'd heard David Cameron had brought Skippy Dies on holiday.

Skippy Dies is filled with so many great passages.

Angel: At the same time, I never feel inclined to read a «comic» novel, and I think that if Skippy Dies had been presented to me as a comic novel first and foremost, I would have been put off.

Paul Murray, Skippy Dies (Faber & Faber), by Irish author Murray, which details the crazed and sometimes dangerous energy of adolescence in a novel set in a second - rate Dublin boarding school.

After all, much of the action takes place at Ed's Doughnut House, including Skippy's untimely demise, so what could top a doughnut - themed book club party for Skippy Dies?

Angel: I remember you saying that there was a joke that you really wanted to keep in your first draft of Skippy Dies but you had to take out.

If you enjoyed Skippy Dies, check out An Evening of Goodbyes, by Paul Murray, and 2 of my favorite novels of teen angst, alienation, and confusion, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and The Secret History by Donna Tartt.

Skippy Dies was in some ways also a novel of institutions — the Church and the school both come under scrutiny as do, perhaps less directly, the management consultants.

Skippy Dies by Paul Murray (672 pages) Does anyone really ever get over adolescence?

Today's Debut of the Day pick is An Evening of Long Goodbyes, the inventive and hilarious first novel from Irish writer Paul Murray (whose follow up, Skippy Dies, was also marvelous and memorable).

I'm not usually one to find long books daunting, but the nearly 700 pages of Skippy Dies did give me pause.

An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray Murray is best known for his excellent second novel, Skippy Dies, but his charming, Wodehous - ian debut, set in a crumbling Irish mansion, is a social satire for the ages.

As Easy as Falling off the Face of the Earth by Lynne Rae Perkins A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson Chicken Big by Keith Graves Exley by Brocke Clark Five Days Apart by Chris Binchy Freedom by Jonathan Franzen Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li Lift by Kelly Corrigan Lives Like Loaded Guns by Lyndall Gordon Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross Our Tragic Universe by Scarlett Thomas Running the Books by Avi Steinberg Skippy Dies by Paul Murray Street Shadows by Jerald Walker Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart The Bedwetter by Sarah Silverman The Book of Fires by Jane Borodale The Passage by Justin Cronin The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant What to Cook & How to Cook It by Jane Hornby You Had Me at Woof by Julie Klam

I would like to note that Jennifer Egan beat out a very impressive group of Finalists: Freedom, Skippy Dies, To the End of the Land and Comedy in a Minor Key.

Room by Emma Donoghue (out Sept. 13, and look for an interview with Donoghue in our September issue) C by Tom McCarthy (out Sept. 7 — look for a review in September) Skippy Dies by Paul Murray (out Aug. 31) Trespass by Rose Tremain (out Oct. 18)