Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

By Christopher Moore

Book Overview

"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, Sacr 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 Sacr 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006177975X
• ISBN13: 9780061779756
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Watch out for the Colorman!

I first learned of the Post-impressionists in college, as a photography major. I adore the gritty paintings and posters of Toulouse-Lautrec, and who can deny the color blue? It is the sky, the sea, a beautiful glass bowl! The author gives us a wonderful setting in Paris, opens the story with a mysterious murder, and winds a tale of strange mystical vampiristic predation through the book. When we are finally faced with the Colorman, we have engaged with all the major players in the Parisian painter scene. I don't want to risk spoilers so I'll leave off by saying I thoroughly enjoyed this story - enough that I bought a copy of the book to add to my library. 💙

The start to my Christopher Moore addiction (and a life during grief)!

When I first read this book some years ago, I did not realize it was a comedy. I had yet to hear of Christopher Moore, buried in J.K. Rowling and Diana Gabaldon, he had escaped my attention. My fault. My family was laughing at me giggling over this book! See it was hard times for us then and no one felt like laughing. This book brought back our laughter, the nudge we needed and didn't know, that it's okay to laugh! Obscene and snarky was all it took!

Painting artists in a new light

One of the funniest books I’ve read. Author did an amazing amount of research into artists of the time to flesh out an already intriguing comedy.