The modern master of comic satire, Moore delivers a hilarious and heartwarming story in which the ultimate Beta Male--the kind who is very, very careful and very prepared--takes a nosedive into the deep end of uncertainty when he's recruited to handle a new role: Death.
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The modern master of comic satire, Moore delivers a hilarious and heartwarming story in which the ultimate Beta Male--the kind who is very, very careful and very prepared--takes a nosedive into the deep end of uncertainty when he's recruited to handle a new role: Death.
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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.
Critic Reviews
“"To keep a straight face while reading this book, one would have to be dead already ... Grade: A."”
"Makes you laugh in the face of death." -- Rocky Mountain News
"[Moore] is superb in this mock epic of death and love. Smart people will be enormously amused." -- Library Journal (starred review)
"My top pick for laugh-out-loud reading . . . dark, dark, dark and funny, funny, funny." -- Sarasota Herald-Tribune
"Hilarious yet poignant." -- Hartford Courant
"Outlandishly funny." -- Syracuse Post-Standard
"One of the antic Moore's funniest capers yet." -- Kirkus Reviews
"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
"[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
-- Rocky Mountain News
"[Moore's] most speculative, tripped-out and deeply felt book to date." -- The Oregonian (Portland)
"A bravura mix of the familiar and the hilariously original." -- Denver Post
"[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
"Death, of course, is not usually a funny subject, but in the hands of Christopher Moore it sure is." -- Hartford Courant
About the Author
Christopher Moore is the author of eighteen previous novels, including Razzmatazz, Shakespeare for Squirrels, Noir, Secondhand Souls, Sacr� Bleu, Fool, and Lamb. He lives in San Francisco, California.
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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.
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