A Ticketed Event with Christopher More for ANIMA RISING at Boswell

Boswell presents a ticketed event with New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore, who appears at the store with Anima Rising, his hilariously deranged new tale of a mad scientist, a famous painter, and an undead woman’s electrifying journey of self-discovery.

Tickets cost $30 plus tax and fee, and each ticket includes admission for one and one signed copy of Anima Rising. All the books will be presigned before the event, and Moore will personalize books afterwards.

Vienna, 1911. Gustav Klimt, the most famous painter in the Austrian Empire, spots a woman’s nude body in the Danube canal. He knows he should summon a policeman, but he can’t resist stopping to make a sketch first. And as he draws, the woman coughs. Back at his studio, Klimt and his model-turned-muse Wally tend to the erstwhile-drowned girl. She’s nearly feral and doesn’t 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? Poor Things meets Bride of Frankenstein in Anima Rising, Christopher Moore’s most ingenious (and probably most hilarious) novel yet.

Christopher Moore is the author of eighteen previous novels, including Razzmatazz, Shakespeare for Squirrels, Noir, Secondhand Souls, Sacré Bleu, Fool, and Lamb.

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