{"product_id":"9780061719875","title":"Fool : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eFool\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Christopher Moore\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hilarious, always inventive, this is a book for all, especially uptight English teachers, bardolaters, and ministerial students.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFool\u003c\/em\u003e—the bawdy and outrageous \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller from the unstoppable Christopher Moore—is a hilarious new take on William Shakespeare’s \u003cem\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/em\u003e…as seen through the eyes of the foolish liege’s clownish jester, Pocket. A rousing tale of “gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity,” \u003cem\u003eFool\u003c\/em\u003e joins Moore’s own \u003cem\u003eLamb\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFluke\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Stupidest Angel\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eYou Suck!\u003c\/em\u003e as modern masterworks of satiric wit and sublimely twisted genius, prompting Carl Hiassen to declare Christopher Moore “a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Funny, literate, smart and sexy, all at once!”\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e“[W]all-to-wall, farcical fornicating and fighting…a jolly good time can be had.”\u003cbr\u003e“Less may be more, but it isn’t Moore. Wretched excess doth have power to charm, and there are great reeking oodles of it strewn throughout these irreverent pages.”\u003cbr\u003e“It’s hard to resist so gleeful a tale of murder, witchcraft, treason, maiming, and spanking. . . . Moore’s deft ear for dialogue keeps the pages turning . . . Fool is a wickedly good time.”\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e“Often funny, sometimes hilarious, always inventive, this is a book for all, especially uptight English teachers, bardolaters and ministerial students of the kind who come to our doorstep on Saturday mornings.”\u003cbr\u003e“In truth, Fool is exuberantly, tirelessly, brazenly profane, vulgar, crude, sexist, blasphemous and obscene. Compared to Moore’s novel, even Mel Brooks’s hilariously tasteless film “Blazing Saddles” appears a model of stately 18th-century decorousness.”\u003cbr\u003e“The very definition of a bawdy romp: a broad, elbow-in-the-ribs, wink-wink homage to King Lear (but with quantities of shagging that would have kept legions of Grade 12 students glued to their copies had the Bard only thought to include it). …[A] riotous adventure.”\u003cbr\u003e“Moore is a very clever boy when it comes to words. There are good chuckles to be had in this tale. …Whether you need to read the original King Lear before you read Moore’s Fool is debatable. Seems a fool’s errand to us. Just enjoy.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780061719875\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"HarperLuxe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41096808399054,"sku":"9780061719875","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780061719875.jpg?v=1649305857","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780061719875","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}