Description

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 the Author

Christopher Moore is the author of eleven previous novels: Fool, You Suck, A Dirty Job, The Stupidest Angel, Fluke, Lamb, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, Island of the Sequined Love Nun, Bloodsucking Fiends, Coyote Blue, and Practical Demonkeeping.

Praise for A Dirty Job…

“Outstanding . . . The dialogue follows a zany illogic worthy of the Marx brothers.”
-Washington Post Book World

“A bravura mix of the familiar and the hilariously original.”
-Denver Post

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

“Outlandishly funny.”
-Syracuse Post-Standard

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

“One of the antic Moore’s funniest capers yet.”
-Kirkus Reviews

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

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

“[A DIRTY JOB] will keep a smile on your face long after you put it down.”
-Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Death, of course, is not usually a funny subject, but in the hands of Christopher Moore it sure is.”
-Hartford Courant

“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

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

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

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

“Hilarious yet poignant.”
-Hartford Courant