A Dirty Job - Softcover

Moore, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060590289 ISBN 13: 9780060590284

Publisher: William Morrow & Company, 2007

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

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

"Moore's signature tossed-off humor is in full effect, and it's easy to care about his warm, lumpy, honest characters."--Entertainment Weekly

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

"[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

"Hilarious yet poignant."--Hartford Courant

"[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)

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

"To keep a straight face while reading this book, one would have to be dead already ... Grade: A."--Rocky Mountain News

Book Description:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0060590289
• ISBN 13: 9780060590284
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416