Dirty Job, A - Softcover

"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)

"[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

"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

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

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

"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)

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.