Dirty Job

English

ISBN: 0060590270

EAN: 9780060590277

Category: Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary/Fiction / Humorous/

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Release Date: 03/21/2006

Synopsis: Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. Hes whats known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one whos always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male. But Charlies been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. Hes married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child. Yes, Charlies doing okay for a Beta. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. Just as Charlie -- exhausted from the birth -- turns to go home, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at Rachels hospital 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, giant ravens perch on his building, and 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. Its a dirty job. But hey, somebodys gotta do it. Christopher Moore, the man whose Lamb served up Jesus missing years (with the funny parts left in), and whose Fluke found the deep humor in whale researchers lives, 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.

Awards: Library Journal Best Books of the Year – null  Library Journal Best Books of the Year – null 

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Dirty Job

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.25 inches

Width: 6.31 inches

Length: 9.28 inches

Weight: 24.06 oz

Pages: 400