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Paul Murray's Skippy Dies" is a tragicomic masterpiece about a Dublin boarding school. It is longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010. Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths & the Search of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel ' Skippy' Juster is his roommate. In the grand old Dublin institution that is Seabrook College for Boys nobody pays either of them much attention. But when Skippy falls for Lori the frisbee-playing siren from the girls' school next door suddenly all kinds of people take an interest
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