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Zusatztext "Christopher Moore's new novel blends diligently researched art history smoothly with his fevered! fiendish imagination." Informationen zum Autor Christopher Moore is the author of eighteen previous novels, including Razzmatazz , Shakespeare for Squirrels , Noir , Secondhand Souls, Sacré Bleu, Fool, and Lamb . He lives in San Francisco, California. Klappentext A rollicking tale that features special printed map endpapers and more than two dozen masterpieces of art throughout the book! Sacré Bleu is better than a day at the museum! It is the color of the Virgin Mary's cloak! a dazzling pigment desired by artists! an exquisite hue infused with danger! adventure! and perhaps even the supernatural. It is . . . Sacré Bleu In July 1890! Vincent van Gogh went into a cornfield and shot himself. Or did he? Why would an artist at the height of his creative powers attempt to take his own life . . . and then walk a mile to a doctor's house for help? Who was the crooked little "color man" Vincent had claimed was stalking him across France? And why had the painter recently become deathly afraid of a certain shade of blue? These are just a few of the questions confronting Vincent's friends—baker-turned-painter Lucien Lessard and bon vivant Henri Toulouse-Lautrec—who vow to discover the truth about van Gogh's untimely death. Their quest will lead them on a surreal odyssey and brothel-crawl deep into the art world of late nineteenth-century Paris. Oh là là! quelle surprise ! and zut alors! A delectable confection of intrigue! passion! and art history—with cancan girls! baguettes! and fine French cognac thrown in for good measure— Sacré Bleu is another masterpiece of wit and wonder from the one! the only! Christopher Moore. Zusammenfassung “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. ...
