Anima Rising: A Novel

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FromNew York Timesbestselling author Christopher Moore comes a hilariously deranged tale of a mad scientist, a famous painter, and an undead womans electrifying journey of self-discovery.

Vienna, 1911. Gustav Klimt, the most famous painter in the Austrian Empire, the darling of Viennese society, spots a womans nude body in the Danube canal. He knows he should summon a policeman, but he cant resist stopping to make a sketch first. And as he draws, the woman coughs. Shes alive!

Back at his studio, Klimt and his model-turned-muse Wally tend to the erstwhile-drowned girl. Shes nearly feral and doesnt remember who she is, or how she came to be floating in the canal. Klimt names her Judith, after one of his most famous paintings, and resolves to help her find her memory.

With a little help from Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, Judith recalls being stranded in the arctic one hundred years ago, locked in a crate by a man named Victor Frankenstein, and visiting the Underworld.

So how did she get here And why are so many people chasing her, including Geoff, the giant croissant-eating devil dog of the North

Poor Things meets Bride of Frankenstein in Anima Rising, Christopher Moores most ingenious (and probably most hilarious) novel yet.

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Hilarious . . . [Moores] imagination swings into overdrive. He contemplates the sex lives of Klimt and Egon Schiele, writes pastiches derived fromFrankensteinand the Freud-Jung correspondence, and even finds room to include a grating failed artist named Hitler. . . Plenty of fun to be had. Publishers Weekly Moore offers an absurdist and sardonic sequel, of sorts, to Frankenstein. . . This is a wild adventure through history, art, and literature for Moores many fans and those who enjoy historical fiction with a side of fantasy and wry humor. Library Journal Smart and funny and all sorts of raunchy in the best way. . . Dazzles, entertains and squeezes in more than a few laughs. . . Razzmatazz is another success for Christopher Moore. San Francisco Chronicle on Razzmatazz Moore and his merry band of miscreants are firmly on the right side of historyand they will make you laugh until it hurts. BookPage (starred review) on Razzmatazz Buckle in forShakespeare for Squirrels, an uproarious take on Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dreamtransformed into a murder mystery. . . A funny, fast-paced, and wild read. Huffington Post It takes a certain amount of guts and wild abandon to recast a Shakespeare comedy as a hard-boiled detective story, but if anyone can pull it off, its master satirist Moore, whose gift for funny business apparently knows no bounds. . . .A welcome return of a fan-favorite character in a romp of a tale that will delight not only mystery buffs but also fantasy fanatics, and, of course, Bard lovers. Booklist(starred review) on Shakespeare for Squirrels Christopher Moore gives us dizzy dames and shadowy gangsters inNoir. Sammy, Moores comic revision of Sam Spade, will take you on a silly-thrilly ride through late-1940s San Francisco, and youll be laughing all the way. Washington Post

Author Bio

Christopher Mooreis the author of eighteen previous novels, including Razzmatazz, Shakespeare for Squirrels,Noir,Secondhand Souls, Sacr Bleu, Fool,andLamb. He lives in San Francisco, California.