An edition of A Dirty Job: A Novel (2006)

A Dirty Job

A Novel

1st ed.
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An edition of A Dirty Job: A Novel (2006)

A Dirty Job

A Novel

1st ed.
  • 3.8 (12 ratings) ·
  • 14 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 17 Have read

Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who's always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male.But Charlie's 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. He's 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, Charlie's 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 Rachel's 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. It's a dirty job. But hey, somebody's 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.

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Publisher
William Morrow
Language
English
Pages
387

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A Dirty Job
2006, HarperCollins
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A Dirty Job: A Novel
2006, William Morrow
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.6
Library of Congress
PS3563.O594 D57 2006, PS3563.O594D57 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
387

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3431684M
Internet Archive
dirtyjob00moor
ISBN 10
0060590270
ISBN 13
9780060590277
LCCN
2005057501
OCLC/WorldCat
62326926
Library Thing
6467477
Goodreads
33456

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