A Dirty Job: A Novel

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.

Rocky Mountain News

“Makes you laugh in the face of death.”

Library Journal (starred review)

“[Moore] is superb in this mock epic of death and love. Smart people will be enormously amused.”

Sarasota Herald-Tribune

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

Hartford Courant

“Hilarious yet poignant.”

Syracuse Post-Standard

“Outlandishly funny.”

Kirkus Reviews

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

Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Son of a Witch

“Dizzyingly inventive and hypnotically engaging, A DIRTY JOB is . . . like no other book I’ve ever read.”

Publishers Weekly

“[A] wonderful, whacked-out yarn.”

Entertainment Weekly

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

Rocky Mountain News

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

The Oregonian (Portland)

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

Denver Post

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

Cleveland Plain Dealer

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

Washington Post Book World

“Outstanding . . . The dialogue follows a zany illogic worthy of the Marx brothers.”

Hartford Courant

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

From the Inside Flap

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. --Entertainment Weekly

From the Back Cover

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 eighteen previous novels, including Razzmatazz, Shakespeare for Squirrels, Noir, Secondhand Souls, Sacré Bleu, Fool, and Lamb. He lives in San Francisco, California.

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