The Lively Lives of Crispin Mobey

Crispin Mobey is an evangelical missionary who attempts to spread his

Southern Primitive (SoPrim) religion throughout the world. In a series

of letters written to his superiors back home in Abysmuth, Mississippi,

the bumptious Mobey reports on his misadventures from the unenlightened

corners of the earth. He even follows his calling to outer space. As we

follow Mobey's picaresque travels and the nonstop string of puns and

painful jokes, the problems of this kind of humor become apparent; and

finally, the book's amusing concept is annulled by an overdose of

exaggeration.