Sacre Bleu (Large Print) by Christopher Moore

Sacre Bleu (Large Print) by Christopher Moore

A rollicking tale that features special printed map endpapers and more than two dozen masterpieces of art throughout the book, Sacre 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 . . .

Sacre 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 la la, 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--Sacre Bleu is another masterpiece of wit and wonder from the one, the only, Christopher Moore.

Christopher Moore, Ph.D. (2008), University of Minnesota, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Classics at the Pennsylvania State University. He has written Socrates and Self-Knowledge (Cambridge, 2015) and Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origins of a Discipline (Princeton, 2019); he has also co-edited Socrates and the Socratic Dialogue (Brill, 2018) and Plato: Charmides (Hackett, 2019).

Contributors are: Dolores Amat, Hayden W. Ausland, Mark Beck, Brady Bowman, Nadia Bray, Jacques A. Bromberg, Alison Calhoun, Damian Caluori, F. Javier Campos-Daroca, Curtis Dozier, Juraj Franek, Samuel Frederick, James Hankins, Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Brian Earl Johnson, David Johnson, Mark Joyal, Oskari Kuusela, Leonard Lawlor, Cedric Littlewood, Antis Loizides, Felicity P. Loughlin, Menahem Luz, Sean McConnell, Christopher Moore, David J. Murphy, Sandra Peterson, Ute Pietruschka, Susan Prince, Christopher C. Raymond, David Schur, John Sellars, Karel Thein, Michele Trizio, Elvira Wakelnig, David Conan Wolfsdorf, Lori Yamato

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ISBN 13	9780062088611
ISBN 10	0062088610
Titel	Sacre Bleu (Large Print)
Autor	Christopher Moore
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Harperluxe
Erscheinungsjahr	2012-04-03
Seitenanzahl	592
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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