![]() His death is the result of an overdose of tranquilizers-a fact that stuns his family and the surrounding community. ![]() Skippy writes, “tell Lori” in spilled donut jam on the floor as he is dying he does not manage to finish his message. His friend Ruprecht, another contestant, watches horror-struck. Daniel “Skippy” Juster dies in the first chapter, collapsing in the middle of a doughnut-eating contest at a local shop. The novel is set at the fictional Seabrook College, a Catholic school in Dublin, Ireland. ![]() Murray is an Irish novelist whose first novel, An Evening of Long Goodbyes, was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Prize in 2003. The novel started out as a short story about the relationship between a student and his teacher, quickly sprawled into a manuscript that ran over a thousand pages, then was cut down significantly for publication. ![]() Skippy Dies (2010), a tragicomic work of literary fiction by Paul Murray, tells the story of the events that led to a young teen’s sudden death as well as its aftermath. ![]()
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