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A DIRTY JOB by CHRISTOPHER MOORE : Signed (Advance Uncorrected Proof)
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Item specifics
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- Book Series
- The Serrano Legacy Ser.
- Illustrator
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9780060590277
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060590270
ISBN-13
9780060590277
eBay Product ID (ePID)
47686839
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dirty Job : a Novel
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Humorous / Black Humor, Fantasy / Contemporary, Satire, Romance / Romantic Comedy, Humorous / General
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
0.7 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-057501
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
A
Reviews
Moore's signature tossed-off humor is in full effect, and it's easy to care about his warm, lumpy, honest characters., Dizzyingly inventive and hypnotically engaging, A DIRTY JOB is . . . like no other book I've ever read., Death, of course, is not usually a funny subject, but in the hands of Christopher Moore it sure is., "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 "#%&@*!--It's A Dirty Job, but Moore has to do it, delivering another bent cocktail of his designer-brand insanity--and giving the current generation its own Vonnegut, Robbins, and Swift rolled into one. Amen." - Tim Dorsey, author of The Big Bamboo "[Moore] is superb in this mock epic of death and love. Smart people will be enormously amused." - Library Journal (starred review) "Dizzyingly inventive and hypnotically engaging, A Dirty Job is by turns hysterical, severely sad, always brisk and lolloping, and like no other book I've ever read." - Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Son of a Witch "If there's a funnier writer out there, step forward." - Playboy "Death, of course, is not usually a funny subject, but in the hands of Christopher Moore it sure is." - Hartford Courant "One of the antic Moore's funniest capers yet." - Kirkus Reviews "[A] wonderful, whacked-out yarn." - Publishers Weekly "Hilarious yet poignant." - Hartford Courant "My top pick for laugh-out-loud reading . . . dark, dark, dark and funny, funny, funny." - Sarasota Herald-Tribune "Outlandishly funny." - Syracuse Post-Standard "[A DIRTY JOB] will keep a smile on your face long after you put it down." - Cleveland Plain Dealer "Outstanding . . . The dialogue follows a zany illogic worthy of the Marx brothers." - Washington Post Book World "Makes you laugh in the face of death." - Rocky Mountain News "[A] wonderful, whacked-out yarn . . . Moore's enthusiasm and skill make it convincing, and his affection for the cast of weirdos gives the book an unexpected poignancy." - Publishers Weekly "A bravura mix of the familiar and the hilariously original." - Denver Post "Moore's signature tossed-off humor is in full effect, and it's easy to care about his warm, lumpy, honest characters." - Entertainment Weekly "To keep a straight face while reading this book, one would have to be dead already ... Grade: A." - Rocky Mountain News "[Moore's] most speculative, tripped-out and deeply felt book to date." - The Oregonian (Portland)
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Edition Description
Novelization
Synopsis
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who's always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male. But Charlie's been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. He's married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay for a Beta. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. Just as Charlie -- exhausted from the birth -- turns to go home, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at Rachel's hospital bedside, a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird. . . . People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It's a dirty job. But hey, somebody's gotta do it. Christopher Moore, the man whose Lamb served up Jesus' "missing years" (with the funny parts left in), and whose Fluke found the deep humor in whale researchers' lives, now shines his comic light on the undiscovered country we all eventually explore -- death and dying -- and the results are hilarious, heartwarming, and a hell of a lot of fun., The author of the national bestsellers "Fluke" and "The Stupidest Angel" returns with this absurdly outrageous, howlingly funny, scathingly satiric novel about a neurotic, just-widowed father of a newborn whose life takes a really weird detour.
LC Classification Number
PS3563.O594D57 2006
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