A Dirty Job - Couverture rigide

Moore, Christopher

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1597223166 ISBN 13 : 9781597223164

Editeur : Wheeler Pub Inc, 2006

Synopsis

Book by Moore Christopher

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

“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)

“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))

“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)

Présentation de l'éditeur

Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy, the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant. And Charlie's been lucky. He's married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy, and who is about to have their first child.

Yes, Charlie's doing okay. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. Just as Charlie turns to go home, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at his wife's 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. 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.

Bestselling author Christopher Moore 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wheeler Pub Inc
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1597223166
• ISBN 13: 9781597223164
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 623
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible