A Dirty Job - Hardcover

Moore, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060590270 ISBN 13: 9780060590277

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 2006

Synopsis

Charlie Asher, a neurotic and anxious hypochondriac who hates change, gets more than he had bargained for when his wife dies of a freak medical condition on the day his new daughter, Sophie, is born, as he is confronted by the challenges of being a widower, a single parent, and the focus of a strange and deadly series of bizarre occurrences. 150,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"One of the antic Moore's funniest capers yet." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Outlandishly funny." -- Syracuse Post-Standard

"[A] wonderful, whacked-out yarn." -- Publishers Weekly

"Makes you laugh in the face of death." -- Rocky Mountain News

"Hilarious yet poignant." -- Hartford Courant

Hilarious yet poignant. --Hartford Courant

Outlandishly funny. --Syracuse Post-Standard

"My top pick for laugh-out-loud reading . . . dark, dark, dark and funny, funny, funny."--Sarasota Herald-Tribune

"[Moore] is superb in this mock epic of death and love. Smart people will be enormously amused."--Library Journal (starred review)

"[Moore's] most speculative, tripped-out and deeply felt book to date."--The Oregonian (Portland)

Book Description:

Chris Moore tackles death - make that Death - in his latest wonderful, whacked-out yarn.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060590270
• ISBN 13: 9780060590277
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 387