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At last, a love story you can really sink your teeth into! With a psychedelic inventiveness that invites comparison with Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Robbins, Christopher Moore, the author of Coyote Blue, spins a hip tale of vampires on the loose and in love in San Francisco.
When Jody wakes up in an alley, under a dupster, with a badly burned arm and a pain in her neck, she knows it isn't going to be one of her better days. She feels awful, looks worse; her clothes are torn, her sense of smell is suddenly as sharp as an animal's, she can see heat, and she has superhuman strength. And one more thing--she has an insatiable thirst for blood. What she doesn't realize is that this is only the beginning....
C. Thomas Flood (Tommy to his friends) has just arrived in San Francisco, full of dreams of becoming the next literary wunderkind. Instead he ends up working at the local Safeway and playing frozen turkey bowling with the motley night crew. He's also sharing a crowded apartment with five Chinese men who want to marry him in order to keep from getting deproted. Could things get any worse? One night Tommy meets the strikingly beautiful Jody on one of her nocturnal visits to the supermarket and gets the suprise of his life when the casual date they make to meet the next night (after sunset, of course) triggers the start of a relationship destined to span eternity. Life (and the afterlife) will never be the same....
So begins the zany and wildly different love story that is at the heart of Bloodsucking Fiends, a romance novel like none you've ever read before, and a bloodcurdlingly funny vampire story about passion, bloodlust, and blood loss. As in his earlier novels, Moore weaves a touching story that is achingly funny and filled with characters both memorable and real.
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Fiction, Vampires in fiction, Vampires, Women, San francisco (calif.), fiction, Vampires, fiction, Fiction, fantasy, contemporary, Fiction, humorous, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Teenagers, Police, Suspects (Criminal investigation), Bildungsromans, C. Thomas Flood (Fictitious character), Murder suspects, Romans, nouvelles, Adolescents, Suspects (Enquêtes criminelles), Coming of age, Authors, California, fictionPlaces
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Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story
March 18, 2008, Simon & Schuster
Paperback
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Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story
October 1, 1996, Harper Perennial, Spike
in English
0380728133 9780380728138
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Blood Sucking Fiends: a Love Story
December 2, 1995, Transworld Publishers Ltd
Paperback
0552995967 9780552995962
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Bloodsucking Fiends: a love story
1995, Simon & Schuster
Hardcover
in English
0684810972 9780684810973
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"Sundown painted purple across the great Pyramid while the Emperor enjoyed a steaming whiz against a dumpster in the alley below."
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