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Book Title: Dirty Job : a Novel

Publication Name: A Dirty Job

Title: A Dirty Job

Author: Christopher Moore

Format: Trade Paperback

ISBN-10: 0060590289

EAN: 9780060590284

ISBN: 9780060590284

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genre: Fiction

Release Year: 2007

Release Date: 27/03/2007

Language: English

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Item Height: 0.9in

Item Length: 8in

Item Width: 5.3in

Item Weight: 10.8 Oz

Publication Year: 2007

Topic: Occult & Supernatural, Family Life, Satire, Humorous / General

Number of Pages: 416 Pages

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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.

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Dirty Job : a Novel

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Moore's signature tossed-off humor is in full effect, and it's easy to care about his warm, lumpy, honest characters., Dizzyingly inventive and hypnotically engaging, A DIRTY JOB is . . . like no other book I've ever read., Death, of Course, Is Not Usually a Funny Subject, but in the Hands of Christopher Moore It Sure Is., "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, 'Death, of course, is not usually a funny subject, but in the hands of Christopher Moore it sure is . . . [Moore] is in fine form in A DIRTY JOB . . . If dark humor is your thing, you'll relish this one.' (Hartford Courant)

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by N2MI_p_OTuu@Deleted
Jun 13, 2011
[A] wonderful, whacked-out yarn........................
This darkly wacky take on the Grim Reaper from the author of BLOODSUCKING FIENDS features cameo appearances from several characters of that previous novel. Recent widower Charlie Asher, a sweet but somewhat wimpy worrywart, learns that he has been chosen to become a Death Merchant, one of many responsible for recovering the object from a dead person that holds that person's soul and passing that soul vessel on to another, living person. The job maintains a cosmic balance that prevents the forces of darkness from rising up and taking over the world. Unfortunately, someone (possibly Charlie) has already upset that balance. Size Length: 405 pages Height: 8 in. Width: 5.3 in. Thickness: 1 in. Weight: 12.8 oz. Publisher's Note Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married ... This darkly wacky take on the Grim Reaper from the author of BLOODSUCKING FIENDS features cameo appearances from several characters of that previous novel. Recent widower Charlie Asher, a sweet but somewhat wimpy worrywart, learns that he has been chosen to become a Death Merchant, one of many responsible for recovering the object from a dead person that holds that person's soul and passing that soul vessel on to another, living person. The job maintains a cosmic balance that prevents the forces of darkness from rising up and taking over the world. Unfortunately, someone (possibly Charlie) has already upset that balance. Size Length: 405 pages Height: 8 in. Width: 5.3 in. Thickness: 1 in. Weight: 12.8 oz. Publisher's Note 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. Charlie Asher, a neurotic and anxious hypochondriac who hates change, confronts the challenges of being a widower and a single parent when his wife dies of a freak medical condition on the day his new daughter, Sophie, is born. 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. Reprint. Industry reviews "[A] wonderful, whacked-out yarn....If it sounds over the top, that's because it is--but Moore's enthusiasm and skill make it convincing, and his affection for the cast of weirdos gives the book an unexpected poignancy." (02/20/2006) "[O]ne of the antic Moore's funniest capers yet." (02/01/2006)
by theestatepreserve
Jan 08, 2009
A Quirky, Canny, Humorous Spin on Death & its Merchants
Protagonist Charlie Asher, a "Beta Male," is a naturally cautious and timid soul, content with life as the proprietor of a thrift store. What sustains him is his wife, Rachel, who he can hardly believe ever consented to be his partner. When Rachel delivers their first child, Sophie, Charlie's life seems complete...for a moment. While still adapting to his new life as a father, he loses Rachel to a "cerebral thromboembolism." Matters are complicated when Charlie sees Minty Fresh, a used-music dealer who moonlights as a "Death Merchant," collect Rachel's "soul vessel." And now Charlie, thanks to his ability to see Fresh snapping up his wife's soul in her favorite CD, has been tapped for the same job. It is THEN that the narrative becomes hilariously bizarre. The remainder of the novel ... Protagonist Charlie Asher, a "Beta Male," is a naturally cautious and timid soul, content with life as the proprietor of a thrift store. What sustains him is his wife, Rachel, who he can hardly believe ever consented to be his partner. When Rachel delivers their first child, Sophie, Charlie's life seems complete...for a moment. While still adapting to his new life as a father, he loses Rachel to a "cerebral thromboembolism." Matters are complicated when Charlie sees Minty Fresh, a used-music dealer who moonlights as a "Death Merchant," collect Rachel's "soul vessel." And now Charlie, thanks to his ability to see Fresh snapping up his wife's soul in her favorite CD, has been tapped for the same job. It is THEN that the narrative becomes hilariously bizarre. The remainder of the novel covers five years of Charlie's life, during which time he intermittently raises Sophie as a single dad, performs his duties as a Death Merchant and attempts to thwart a trio of "sewer-dwelling harpies" out to undermine all human existence. His efforts are aided by a motley crew: his two helpers at the junk store (Lily, a teenage Goth girl and Ray, a bachelor ex-cop fixated on mail-order brides); his obnoxious lesbian sister Jane; two hellhounds; and Audrey, a mystical young leader of the "squirrel people," living beings formed of random, organic flotsam. Much of the fun in Moore's story resides in the quirky events and the sparkling vitality of his prose. Striking figures of speech (the Death Merchants are "secret agents of karma") and aphorisms grace the text: "Everyone is happier, if they have someone to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both." And the dialogue follows a zany illogic worthy of the Marx Brothers. Moore's book benefits from paradoxes he cannily exploits. Nothing enhances Charlie's life like death. "Until he became Death, he'd never felt so alive," writes Moore. Embracing what we fear enlarges our souls -- until they can barely fit onto a compact disc. "A Dirty Job" gives the reader a great ride, albeit in a 1957 Cadillac hearse.
by ethan0804
Mar 21, 2009
Christopher Moore's books are a must!
After reading Lamb by Christopher Moore I was hooked. What an imagination! The humor he imparts throughout his books is irreverant and hilarious and will leave you laughing out loud, provided you find down and dirty humor funny. All of his books are easy to read, engaging stories that tackle every subject from vampires to Jesus himself. A Dirty Job is a quick read about a man who finds, through twists and turns, that he has the powers to usher souls from one being to the next, a death merchant, as he calls himself. The classic struggle between good and evil is the dominant theme in this book, with the main character attempting to maintain the balance between the two before evil rises again. Several characters from two previous books make appearances in this book. At times sweet, at ... After reading Lamb by Christopher Moore I was hooked. What an imagination! The humor he imparts throughout his books is irreverant and hilarious and will leave you laughing out loud, provided you find down and dirty humor funny. All of his books are easy to read, engaging stories that tackle every subject from vampires to Jesus himself. A Dirty Job is a quick read about a man who finds, through twists and turns, that he has the powers to usher souls from one being to the next, a death merchant, as he calls himself. The classic struggle between good and evil is the dominant theme in this book, with the main character attempting to maintain the balance between the two before evil rises again. Several characters from two previous books make appearances in this book. At times sweet, at times a rollercoaster ride on Christopher Moore's wild imagination, A Dirty Job is an incredible story of wild fantasy and a father's love for his daughter as he navigates a job that is dirty, but that someone has to do.
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Jun 16, 2021
Compelling and addictive read.
Great author. Great humorous writing.
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Jul 13, 2017
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