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From one of our greatest comic novelists and the author of Skippy Dies comes a funny, thought-provoking story of one family desperately clinging on as their world falls apart . . .The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman.His wife Imelda is selling off her jewellery on eBay while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way to her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to his grand plan to run away from home.Where did it all go wrong? A patch of ice on the tarmac, a casual favour to a charming stranger, a bee caught beneath a bridal veil?Can a single moment of bad luck change the direction of a life? And if the story has already been written - is there still time to find a happy ending?
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Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, The Sunday Times, The Economist, Observer, Guardian, Washington Post, Lit Hub, TIME magazine, Irish Times, The Oldie, Daily Mail, i Paper, Independent, The Standard, The Times, Kirkus, Daily Express, City A.M.The Barnes family are in trouble. Until recently they ran the biggest business in town, now they’re teetering on the brink of bankruptcy – and that’s just the start of their problems. Dickie and Imelda’s marriage is hanging by a thread, straight-A student Cass is careening off the rails, PJ is hopelessly in debt to the school bully. Meanwhile the ghosts of old mistakes are rising out of the past to meet them, but everyone’s too wrapped up in the present to see the danger looming . . .
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Daniel ''Skippy'' Juster, alumno de catorce años deun exclusivo internado católico irlandés, fallece inexplicablemente antes siquiera de dar comienzo la novela propiamente dicha. Con estos sencillos y, en apariencia, anticlimáticos mimbres, Paul Murray consigue armar una narración perfecta sobre la pérdida de la inocencia y las múltiples brechas que fragmentan la sociedad actual.Ambientada en 2003, radiografía la clasemedia-alta europea caracterizada por su superficialidad, su materialismo y su egoísmo extremos, cuyo único fin es la riqueza, y cuyos actos suponen una traición a sus descendientes inmediatos. Narrada con un gran sentido del humor, Skippy muere posee la casi inencontrable virtud de absorber sin ceder a la mediocridad lingüística y narrativa propias de los superventas.
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