Paul Murray is the author of An Evening of Long Goodbyes, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award in 2003, and Skippy Dies, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award in 2010 and (in the United States) the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Mark and the Void is his third novel. He lives in Dublin.
Savagely funny, brimful of wit, energy, poetry and vision,
unflaggingly entertaining. A triumph
*Sunday Times*
One of the most enjoyable, funny and moving reads of this year. A
rare tragicomedy that's both genuinely tragic and genuinely
comic
*Guardian*
Darkly comic, dazzles, every line drips ideas for fun.
Unputdownably funny, captivating. A masterpiece
*Metro*
Ambitious, wise, funny, fiercely intelligent. The beauty of this
cynical, hopeful, beautifully written book is that it builds a
detailed world to explore life, the universe and everything
*Sunday Express*
Hilarious, heartbreaking, totally engrossing. A triumph
*Daily Mail*
Noisy, hilarious, tragic, endlessly inventive, plain brilliant. A
carnival of a novel
*The Times*
Savagely funny, brimful of wit, energy, poetry and vision,
unflaggingly entertaining. A triumph
*Sunday Times*
One of the most enjoyable, funny and moving reads of this year. A
rare tragicomedy that's both genuinely tragic and genuinely
comic
*Guardian*
Darkly comic, dazzles, every line drips ideas for fun.
Unputdownably funny, captivating. A masterpiece
*Metro*
Ambitious, wise, funny, fiercely intelligent. The beauty of this
cynical, hopeful, beautifully written book is that it builds a
detailed world to explore life, the universe and everything
*Sunday Express*
Hilarious, heartbreaking, totally engrossing. A triumph
*Daily Mail*
Novels rarely come as funny and as moving as this utterly
brilliant
exploration of teenhood and the anticlimax of becoming an adult . .
. Skippy Dies is intuitive, truthful and one of the finest comic
novels written anywhere. Dies? Never! Skippy lives
*Irish Times*
I loved Skippy Dies . . . three novels fused into one ignited
tragicomic tour de force
*Times Literary Supplement*
Skippy Dies is one great high-octane fizz bang of a book
*Irish Times*
Extravagantly entertaining
*New York Times Book Review*
A comic epic. Murray is a brilliant comic writer, but also humane
and touching, and he captures the misery and elation, joy and
anxiety of teenage life. A brilliant depiction of the heaven and
hell of male adolescence
*Guardian*
Murray's writing has earned a place in the contemporary
international canon . . . Murray's characters are so
three-dimensionally drawn and brought to such vivid life that they
may haunt your dreams
*Irish Independent*
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