"This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as nontraditional grammar,...

Christopher Moore is the author of eleven other novels including Bloodsucking Fiends, The Stupidest Angel, and Island of the Sequined Love Nun.

"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."

"This is a bawdy tale." No kidding! Moore's spin on Shakespeare's "King Lear" is very bawdy indeed, often manic, ...