![]() ![]() His characters live in a world of darkness and threat, pain and violence, yet they find with each other hope and love and delight. He’s cheeky, rude, mocking and profane, but his heart’s in the right place. That’s what’s apparent in all of Moore’s books. Prior to this year, I’d read Lamb twice and reviewed it once, in 2017, reveling in its over-the-top irreverent humor with an undertone of seriousness. Yet, as much as it might seem a sacrilege to make fun of the Bard - Moore even has a novel called Shakespeare for Squirrels - he really swung for the blasphemy fences with his 2002 Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal. ![]() Christopher Moore is a writer of joyfully goofy and ribald novels about such things as vampires, demons, San Francisco, a Native-American trickster and the comic aspects of Shakespeare’s tragedies, such as the randy fool in King Lear. ![]()
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