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About the Author

Christopher Moore is the author of twelve previous novels: Practical Demonkeeping, Coyote Blue, Bloodsucking Fiends, Island of the Sequined Love Nun, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, Lamb, Fluke, The Stupidest Angel, A Dirty Job, You Suck, Fool, and Bite Me. He lives in San Francisco, California.

Praise for A Dirty Job…

“Makes you laugh in the face of death.”
-Rocky Mountain News

“[Moore] is superb in this mock epic of death and love. Smart people will be enormously amused.”
-Library Journal (starred review)

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

“Hilarious yet poignant.”
-Hartford Courant

“Outlandishly funny.”
-Syracuse Post-Standard

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

“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

“[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

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

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

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

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

“Outstanding . . . The dialogue follows a zany illogic worthy of the Marx brothers.”
-Washington Post Book World

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