A Dirty Job
By Christopher Moore
(William Morrow Paperbacks, Paperback, 9780060590284, 416pp.)
Publication Date: April 2007
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover
Categories: Humorous
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Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death.
It's a dirty job. But, hey! Somebody's gotta do it.
Christopher Moore is the author of twelve previous novels: Practical Demonkeeping, Coyote Blue, Bloodsucking Fiends, Island of the Sequined Love Nun, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, Lamb, Fluke, The Stupidest Angel, A Dirty Job, You Suck, Fool, and Bite Me. He lives in San Francisco, California.
“Death, of course, is not usually a funny subject, but in the hands of Christopher Moore it sure is.”
-Hartford Courant
“[Moore] is superb in this mock epic of death and love. Smart people will be enormously amused.”
-Library Journal (starred review)
“One of the antic Moore’s funniest capers yet.”
-Kirkus Reviews
“[Moore’s] most speculative, tripped-out and deeply felt book to date.”
-The Oregonian (Portland)
“Outlandishly funny.”
-Syracuse Post-Standard
“Dizzyingly inventive and hypnotically engaging, A DIRTY JOB is . . . like no other book I’ve ever read.”
-Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Son of a Witch
“My top pick for laugh-out-loud reading . . . dark, dark, dark and funny, funny, funny.”
-Sarasota Herald-Tribune
“[A DIRTY JOB] will keep a smile on your face long after you put it down.”
-Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Hilarious yet poignant.”
-Hartford Courant
“Outstanding . . . The dialogue follows a zany illogic worthy of the Marx brothers.”
-Washington Post Book World
“A bravura mix of the familiar and the hilariously original.”
-Denver Post
“To keep a straight face while reading this book, one would have to be dead already ... Grade: A.”
-Rocky Mountain News
“Makes you laugh in the face of death.”
-Rocky Mountain News
“[A] wonderful, whacked-out yarn.”
-Publishers Weekly
“Moore’s signature tossed-off humor is in full effect, and it’s easy to care about his warm, lumpy, honest characters.”
-Entertainment Weekly
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