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SKIPPY Gets Director

One of the titles on the Booker long list, Skippy Dies, is being adapted as a movie script by Neil Jordan, who also plans to direct, reports the movie news site, Deadline. The book, which the Telegraph called a “… glorious comedy” has been a strong seller in the UK. It arrives here at the end of the month.

Skippy Dies: A Novel

Paul Murray

Retail Price:	$28.00
Hardcover:	672 pages
Publisher:	Faber & Faber – (2010-08-31)
ISBN / EAN:	0865479437 / 9780865479432

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One Response to “SKIPPY Gets Director”

There’s More Fiction Coming Next Week | EarlyWord: The Publisher | Librarian Connection Says:
August 27th, 2010 at 8:34 am
[…] boy’s boarding school in Dublin that made the Booker long list and is being made into a movie directed by Neil Jordan, gets a flat-out “A” from Entertainment Weekly: Murray’s humor and inventiveness […]