Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore - ISBN: 9781841494470
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A demon loose in California: good vs. evil, deliciously funny.

Practical Demonkeeping

Book 1: Pine Cove Series

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    24 May 2006

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Summary

In Christopher Moore’s ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and ‘roads’ scholar Travis O’Hearn. The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor fa ade of Pine Cove, California, Catch sees a four-star buffet. Travis, on the other hand, thinks he sees a way of ridding himself of his toothy travelling companio…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781841494470
ISBN-10:184149447X
Author:Christopher Moore
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Orbit
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:24 May 2006
Weight:202g
Dimensions:133mm x 201mm x 19mm
Series:Pine Cove
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Critics Review

Wickedly funny - Waterstone’s Books Quarterly

Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word - Carl Hiaasen,

Humour that seamlessly blends lunacy with larceny … habit forming zaniness - USA Today

Moore is endlessly inventive … This cetacean picaresque is no fluke - it is a sure winner - Publishers Weekly

About The Author

Christopher Moore

Christopher Moore began writing at the age of six and became the oldest known child prodigy when, in his early thirties, he published his first novel. Chris enjoys cheese crackers, acid jazz, and otter scrubbing and lives in an inaccessible island fortress in the Pacific.

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