Shakespeare for Squirrels
Set adrift by his pirate crew, Pocket of Dog Snogging – last seen in The Serpent of Venice – washes up on the sun-bleached shores of Greece, where he hopes to dazzle the Duke with his comedic brilliance and become his trusted fool.
Noir
The absurdly outrageous, sarcastically satiric, and always entertaining New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns in finest madcap form with this zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco, and featuring a diverse cast of characters, including a hapless bartender; his Chinese sidekick; a doll with sharp angles and […]
The Serpent of Venice
Publishers Weekly 01/13/2014 Moore’s mash-up of Othello and The Merchant of Venice with Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado†is a standout sequel to Fool, his twisted retelling of King Lear from 2009. After a dastardly trio of Venetians (including Iago) plot to bury alive Pocket the fool for thwarting an attempt to cook up a […]
Sacre Bleu : a Comedy D'art
Washington Post Book World: “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.â€
Bite Me : a Love Story
Publishers Weekly A vampire cat is stalking San Francisco in Moore?s serviceable latest comic horror adventure (after You Suck), and the only humans who can take him down are goth girl Abby Normal and her brainiac boyfriend, Stephen ?Foo Dog? Wong. They, in turn, call upon Abby?s masters, vampiric lovers Jody and Tommy, who were […]
Fool
Amy Watts – Library Journal: Fans of Moore's (You Suck; A Dirty Job) warped sense of humor will not be dis-appointed by his latest, a retelling of the King Lear story, with Lear's jester, Pocket, in the lead role. Heavily borrowing from Shakespeare's drama for plot and characterization, Moore weaves bits of the Bard's prose […]
You Suck : a Love Story
Publishers Weekly: Moore's latest (after 2006's A Dirty Job) is a cheerfully perverse, gut-busting tale of young vampires in love. Nineteen-year-old Tommy is a bewildered hipster recently relocated to San Francisco from Incontinence, Ind. His sarcastic redhead (and bloodsucking) girlfriend, Jody, brings him into the fold of the undead ("I wanted us to be together," […]