Pocket may be a fool.but he's definitely not an idiot. Now he's going to have do some very fancy maneuvering: cast some spells, start a war or two - the usual stuff - to get Cordelia back into Daddy Lear's good graces, to derail the fiendish power plays of Cordelia's twisted sisters, and to shag every lusciously shaggable wench who's amenable to shagging along the way. And the only person who can possibly make things right. 10, 2009 Moore’s 11th novel ( You Suck, 2007, etc.) re-imagines Shakespeare’s most austere tragic masterpiece with a transgressive brio that will have devoted bardolators howling for the miscreant author’s blood. Well now the bangers and mash have really hit the fan. FOOL by Christopher Moore RELEASE DATE: Feb. Fool Serpent of Venice Shakespeare for Squirrels Based on the fool from Shakespeares King Lear. Named by the abbess who found him left at the nunnery as a baby because he was small enough to fit in her pocket. But Cordelia believes that her father's request is kind of.well.stupid, and her blunt honesty ends up costing her her rightful share of the kingdom and earns her a banishment to boot. The central character in the Fool trilogy which is told from his perspective. Of course Goneril and Regan are only too happy to brownnose Dad. So naturally Pocket is at his brainless, elderly liege's side when Lear demands that his kids swear to him their undying love and devotion. Pocket has been Lear's cherished fool for years.
Christopher Moore, much beloved scrivener and peerless literary jester, now takes on no less than the legendary Bard himself (with the utmost humility and respect) with a twisted and insanely funny tale of a moronic monarch and his deceitful daughters, as seen through the eyes of a man wearing a codpiece and bells on his head. Fool Fool (2009) is the eleventh novel by Christopher Moore.
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