Sacre Bleu LP: A Comedy D'Art - Softcover

Moore, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062088610 ISBN 13: 9780062088611

Publisher: Harper Large Print, 2012

Synopsis

"Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of that word."
--Carl Hiassen

"[Moore's novels] deftly blend surreal, occult, and even science-fiction doings with laugh-out-loud satire of contemporary culture."
--Washington Post

"If there's a funnier writer out there, step forward."
--Playboy

Absolutely nothing is sacred to Christopher Moore. The phenomenally popular, New York Times bestselling satirist whom the Atlanta Journal-Constitution calls, "Stephen King with a whoopee cushion and a double-espresso imagination" has already lampooned Shakespeare, San Francisco vampires, marine biologists, Death...even Jesus Christ and Santa Claus! Now, in his latest masterpiece, Sacré Bleu, the immortal Moore takes on the Great French Masters. A magnificent "Comedy d'Art" from the author of Lamb, Fool, and Bite Me, Moore's Sacré Bleu is part mystery, part history (sort of), part love story, and wholly hilarious as it follows a young baker-painter as he joins the dapper Henri Toulouse-Lautrec on a quest to unravel the mystery behind the supposed "suicide" of Vincent van Gogh.

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Review:

"[W]all-to-wall, farcical fornicating and fighting...a jolly good time can be had."--Booklist on FOOL

"Moore turns things on their head with an edgy 21st-century perspective that makes the story line as sharp, surly and slick as a game of Grand Theft Auto... It's a manic, masterly mix-winning, wild and something today's groundlings will applaud."--Publishers Weekly on FOOL

"I can't emphasize enough how funny BITE ME is."--Bookreporter.com

"Moore has produced eight books that deftly blend surreal, occult and even science-fiction doings with laugh-out-loud satire of contemporary culture. Powered by engines of the abnormal and unlikely, his tales feature eccentric lowlifes who find their desperate existences hilariously remade by intrusions from other spheres."--Washington Post Book World

"Funny, literate, smart and sexy, all at once!"--Jeff Lindsay, author of the Dexter series, on FOOL

"A raunchy slapstick comedy of young vampires in love . . . Moore is in top form, and this reviewer laughed all the way through this page-turner. Enthusiastically recommended."--Library Journal

"In transforming "King Lear" into a potty-mouthed jape, Moore is up to more than thumbing his nose at a masterpiece. His version of Shakespeare's Fool, who accompanies Lear on his slide from paternal arrogance to spiritual desolation in the original text, simultaneously honors and imaginatively enriches the character."--San Francisco Chronicle on FOOL

"An instant classic . . . terrific, funny and poignant.--Rocky Mountain News

"A vampire comedy that's witty, bright and funny."--People

"[H]ilarious, educational, and original. . . . [I]t is difficult to put the book down, for there are astonishing new developments on every page."--BookPage

From the Back Cover:

It is the color of the Virgin Mary's cloak, a dazzling pigmentdesired by artists, an exquisite hue infused with danger, adventure, and perhaps even the super natural. It is . . .Sacré Bleu

In July 1890, Vincent van Gogh went into a cornfield andshot himself. Or did he? Why would an artist at the heightof his creative powers try to take his life . . . and then walk amile to a doctor's house? Who was the crooked little "colorman" Vincent claimed was stalking him? And why had Vincentrecently become terrified of a certain shade of blue?

These questions confront baker-turned-painter Lucien Lessardand bon vivant Henri Toulouse-Lautrec as they seek the truthof their friend's untimely death, a quest that will lead them on asurreal odyssey through late 19th-century Paris.

A delectable confection of intrigue, passion, and arthistory--with can-can girls, baguettes, and fine Frenchcognac thrown in for good measure--Sacré Bleu is anothermasterpiece from the one, the only, Christopher Moore.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Large Print
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0062088610
• ISBN 13: 9780062088611
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592