{"product_id":"9780865478619","title":"Skippy Dies","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy does Skippy, a fourteen-year-old boy at Dublin's venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut shop?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCould it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, an overweight genius who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-dimensional string theory?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCould it involve Carl, the teenage drug dealer and borderline psychotic who is Skippy's rival in love?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr could \"the Automator\"—the ruthless, smooth-talking headmaster intent on modernizing the school—have something to hide?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy Skippy dies and what happens next is the subject of this dazzling and uproarious novel, unraveling a mystery that links the boys of Seabrook College to their parents and teachers in ways nobody could have imagined. With a cast of characters that ranges from hip-hop-loving fourteen-year-old Eoin \"MC Sexecutioner\" Flynn to basketball playing midget Philip Kilfether, packed with questions and answers on everything from Ritalin, to M-theory, to bungee jumping, to the hidden meaning of the poetry of Robert Frost, \u003ci\u003eSkippy Dies \u003c\/i\u003eis a heartfelt, hilarious portrait of the pain, joy, and occasional beauty of adolescence, and a tragic depiction of a world always happy to sacrifice its weakest members. As the twenty-first century enters its teenage years, this is a breathtaking novel from a young writer who will come to define his generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032912314608,"sku":"9780865478619","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780865478619_p0.jpg?v=1763833041","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780865478619","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}