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A broad farce about banking’s dirty secrets in post-Celtic-Tiger Dublin

The Mark and the Void, Paul Murray’s follow-up to the much acclaimed Skippy Dies, is sharp, satirical and utterly of the moment

1 August 2015

9:00 AM

1 August 2015

9:00 AM

The Mark and the Void Paul Murray

Hamish Hamilton, pp.462, £12.99, ISBN: 9780241145128

It’s not Paul Murray’s settings or themes — decadent aristocrats, clerical sex abuse, the financial crisis — that mark him out as original, it’s his handling: the wild plotting, the witty dialogue and the eccentricity of his characters. The follow-up to his widely admired second novel Skippy Dies swaps the adolescent funk of a Catholic boys’ boarding school for the testosterone whiff of a fictional investment bank in Dublin.

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