Charlie has yet to become accustomed to the word Daddy. Though it works hard to wring wildly improbable humor from all of the above, it's very much a book written in the shadow of death.Ĭharlie Asher and his wife, Rachel Goldstein, have just had a baby girl named Sophie as "A Dirty Job" begins. This novel makes light of hellhounds, demons and outlandishly costumed squirrel cadavers (which are inspired by real dead-animal dolls sculptured by an acquaintance of the author's). A giant Micronesian fruit bat in tiny Ray-Bans remains one of his books' most emblematic images.īut his latest and wobbliest story, "A Dirty Job," suggests that Moore's gonzo irreverence has its limits. Moore can impose gallows hilarity on virtually any subject, and has already inflicted his brand of good- time ghoulishness upon whales ("Fluke"), the Gospel ("Lamb") and Santa Claus ("The Stupidest Angel"). No one will ever accuse Christopher Moore of gravitas.
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