Yet, c’mon, Moore sprinkles his story with literary allusions to Thornton Wilder’s great play Our Town (although, in The Stupidest Angel, the voices of those buried in the town cemetery aren’t so quaint nor, for that matter, do their bodies stay buried), and to O.
True, The Stupidest Angel features sex in a graveyard, and an evil developer who lets nothing, including death, stop him, and a naked warrior princess who’s off her meds, and, well, yeah, a lot of elements that would be difficult to define as refined in any way. If you’re buying this book as a gift for your grandson or a kid, you should be aware that it contains cusswords as well as tasteful depictions of cannibalism and people in their forties having sex. It is, after all, a Christmas book.īut, before you go jumping to conclusions, you need to know that, on some unmarked page before page one, Moore issues an Author’s Warning: He eventually carries out a second miracle to fix all the problems - such as zombies and terrors and horrors and deaths - that the first one created.
Which goes, you guessed it, extremely wrong. Christopher Moore’s 2005 novel The Stupidest Angel tells the story of one extremely clueless - albeit extremely powerful - angel who visits the California coastal community of Pine Cove to carry out an extremely spectacular miracle.
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