5/30/2023 0 Comments Marlon james new bookI never thought my school life was particularly funny or sad, but thanks to this book I’m now realizing that I’ve survived the most sidesplitting comedy and heart-wrenching tragedy of my entire life. I had every one of Skippy’s friends: the boy with body odor, the fat kid, the compulsive swearer, the foreign kid, the oversexed loser, the science nerd, the art-gay, the new kid who would soon realize that he could do way better than us. I went to an all-boys high school not much different from Skippy’s. The very best stories can fool you into thinking that this is the first time you’re seeing a certain world, even as you’re being struck by the familiarity of it. Just don’t read the jacket copy: That did a pretty bang-up job of making me stay away from it for years - a shame because it’s one of the few true masterpieces of this young century. Paul Murray’s “ Skippy Dies.” I’ve never read anything like it. Oyinkan Braithwaite’s “ My Sister, the Serial Killer” Yan Lianke’s “ The Day the Sun Died” Mervyn Peake’s “Gormenghast” Anna Burns’s “ Milkman” Mike Mignola’s “B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs I” and Dorothy B. That and a woman or man who can wield two swords.” The author, most recently, of “ Black Leopard, Red Wolf ” admires fantasy fiction that feels “wonderfully strange and alarmingly familiar at the same time.
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