“Skippy Dies” (post 2) by Paul Murray: Literary Hoax?

At the beginning of this widely acclaimed novel, the title character, a teenager, dies, but there is no immediate medical inquiry as to his cause of death.

The bottom of each page of my paperback edition has the page numbers, from page 1 to page 661, but the tops of each page, where a novel’s title and author’s name are usually found, are blank.

Comment: Therefore, in spite of this novel’s wide acclaim and rave reviews, I think it may be a literary hoax and won’t read further.

1. Paul Murray. Skippy Dies. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010.