Christopher Moore is an American writer of absurdist fiction. His stories typically involve conflicted everyman characters suddenly struggling through supernatural or extraordiary circumstances. These off-the-wall characters, wacky settings, and bizzarre storylines often address legitimate political and social concerns. The screenplay rights to some of Moore's books, such as Practical Demonkeeping and Bloodsucking Fiends, have been purchased by Disney, but have not yet been made into movies. Inheriting a humanism from his love of Steinbeck, and a sense of the absurd from Vonnegut, Christopher Moore is a best-selling author with major cult status. Absurdist Fiction, an extreme branch of satire, is a form of fiction or poetry that utilizes absurd characters, situations or subjects to promote thoughtful laughter. ...
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Practical Demonkeeping, published in 1992, is Christopher Moores first novel, dealing with a demon from Hell and his master. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Spoiler warning: Coyote Blue is a story by Christopher Moore about a salesman named Sam Hunter (formally a Crow Indian named Samson Hunt Alone) whose life is turned upside down by Coyote, an ancient Indian trickster god. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story is a 1995 novel by Christopher Moore, combining elements of the supernatural and a romance novel. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Island of the Sequined Love Nun is an absurdist fiction novel by author Christopher Moore. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove is an absurdist fiction novel by author Christopher Moore. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Fluke is a comic novel by Christopher Moore. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
CHRISTOPHERMOORE, Assistant Professor of Trumpet, holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music, a Master of Music in Performance from the University of New Mexico, and a Bachelor of Music in Performance from Florida State University.
Most recently, Dr. Moore was Associate Professor of Trumpet at the University of Kansas, where he directed the trumpet studio, conducted the trumpet ensemble, and performed as a member of the Kansas Brass Quintet for seven years.
Moore served as Assistant Professor of Music at Morningside College (1989-1993), and from 1994 to 1996, was a full-time member of the Chestnut Brass Company, which recorded the CD Hornsmoke, winning the Grammy Award in their field in February 2000.
Before I'd even finished reading ChristopherMoore's 'Fluke', I was busy searching up and ordering the every novel he'd written since the first novel of his I'd read, 'Practical Demonkeeping', and kicking myself for not having done so as the novels came out.
Moore has an easygoing prose style, full of smirking jokes and double-entendres that are high on entertainment value and slip into the brain with the stealth of a single malt scotch.
Moore cranks up the adventurous side of his narrative, but he also posits some thoughts on whale communications that are so believable, his afterward, wherein he explains what's real and what's, as he terms it, "magic" is required, riveting reading.
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