{"id":1407,"date":"2012-07-27T14:32:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T14:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2015-04-04T20:28:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T20:28:02","slug":"sacre-bleu-a-comedy-dart-by-christopher-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1407","title":{"rendered":"Sacre Bleu: A Comedy D&#8217;Art by Christopher Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1419\" title=\"Sacre Bleu\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Sacre-Bleu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What did a stooped old man (with a tendency towards exhibitionism), a beautiful and mysterious woman, and a highly desired ultramarine paint known as \u201csacred blue\u201d have to do with Vincent Van Gogh\u2019s death?\u00a0 Christopher Moore, the king of irreverent hilarity, will lead you to the answer in this playful and often bawdy romp through nineteenth century France.\u00a0 Join Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and fictitious artist Lucien Lessard as they investigate their friend Van Gogh\u2019s death, and along the way discover an ancient cave painting, a trove of priceless art treasures, and the truth behind Lessard\u2019s father\u2019s death years earlier.\u00a0Moore\u2019s book is a pleasure to read, not only for its bursts of humor and wonderful caricatures of the French Impressionists, but also for the author\u2019s skilled writing.\u00a0 A perfect summer read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What did a stooped old man (with a tendency towards exhibitionism), a beautiful and mysterious woman, and a highly desired ultramarine paint known as \u201csacred blue\u201d have to do with Vincent Van Gogh\u2019s death?\u00a0 Christopher Moore, the king of irreverent hilarity, will lead you to the answer in this playful and often bawdy romp through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1407\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sacre Bleu: A Comedy D&#8217;Art by Christopher Moore<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-elizabeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}