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In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most
memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The
good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and "roads"
scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty
habit of eating most of the people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor
façade of Pine Cove, California, Catch sees a four-star buffet.
Travis, on the other hand, thinks he sees a way of ridding himself of
his toothy traveling companion. The winos, neo-pagans, and deadbeat
Lotharios of Pine Cove, meanwhile, have other ideas. And none of them
is quite prepared when all hell breaks loose.
Coyote Blue(1994)
From Christopher Moore, author of Fluke, comes a quirky, irreverent
novel of love, myth, metaphysics, outlaw biking, angst, and outrageous
redemption.
As a boy growing up in Montana, he was Samson Hunts
Alone -- until a deadly misunderstanding with the law forced him to
flee the Crow reservation at age fifteen. Today he is Samuel Hunter, a
successful Santa Barbara insurance salesman with a Mercedes, a condo,
and a hollow, invented life. Then one day, shortly after his
thirty-fifth birthday, destiny offers him the dangerous gift of love
-- in the exquisite form of Calliope Kincaid -- and a curse in the
unheralded appearance of an ancient Indian god by the name of Coyote.
Coyote, the trickster, has arrived to transform tranquility into
chaos, to reawaken the mystical storyteller within Sam . . . and to
seriously screw up his existence in the process.
Bloodsucking Fiends (1995)
Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an
alley Dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching neck, superhuman
strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the
decision has been made for her.
Making the transition from the nine-to-five grind to
an eternity of nocturnal prowlings is going to take some doing,
however, and that's where C. Thomas Flood fits in. A would-be Kerouac
from Incontinence, Indiana, Tommy (to his friends) is biding his time
night-clerking and frozen-turkey bowling in a San Francisco Safeway.
But all that changes when a beautiful undead redhead walks through the
door ... and proceeds to rock Tommy's life -- and afterlife -- in ways
he never imagined possible.
Island of the Sequined Love Nun (1997)
Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a
tropical paradise -- a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad
scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is
Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guys body, who makes a
living as a pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation. But when he
demolishes his boss's pink plane during a drunken airborne liaison,
Tuck must run for his life from Mary Jeans goons. Now there's only one
employment opportunity left for him: piloting shady secret missions
for an unscrupulous medical missionary and a sexy blond high priestess
on the remotest of Micronesian hells. Here is a brazen, ingenious,
irreverent, and wickedly funny novel from a modern master of the
outrageous.
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove (1999)
The town psychiatrist has decided to switch everybody in Pine Cove,
California, from their normal antidepressants to placebos, so
naturally -- well, to be accurate, artificially -- business is booming
at the local blues bar. Trouble is, those lonely slide-guitar notes
have also attracted a colossal sea beast named Steve with, shall we
say, a thing for explosive oil tanker trucks. Suddenly, morose Pine
Cove turns libidinous and is hit by a mysterious crime wave, and a
beleaguered constable has to fight off his own gonzo appetites to find
out what's wrong and what, if anything, to do about it. ..
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
(2003)
The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious
teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday.
But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing
years -- except Biff, the Messiahs best bud, who has been resurrected
to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work
"reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams" (Philadelphia Inquirer).
Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous
one, filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung fu, corpse
reanimations, demons, and hot babes. Even the considerable wiles and
devotion of the Saviors pal may not be enough to divert Joshua from
his tragic destiny. But there's no one who loves Josh more -- except
maybe "Maggie," Mary of Magdala -- and Biff isn't about to let his
extraordinary pal suffer and ascend without a fight.
Fluke (2003)
Just why do humpback whales sing? That's the
question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew
poking, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, gray
marine mammals. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its
tail into the air to display a cryptic message spelled out in
foot-high letters: Bite me.
Trouble is, Nate's beginning to wonder if he hasn't
spent just a little too much time in the sun. Cause no one else on his
team saw a thing -- not his longtime partner, Clay Demodocus; not
their saucy young research assistant; not even the spliff-puffing
white-boy Rastaman Kona (né Preston Applebaum). But later, when a roll
of film returns from the lab missing the crucial tail shot -- and his
research facility is trashed -- Nate realizes something very fishy
indeed is going on.
By turns witty, irreverent, fascinating, puzzling, and
surprising, Fluke is Christopher Moore at his outrageous best.
The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas
Terror (2004)
Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing:
dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of
pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the
mistletoe.
T'was the night (okay, more like the week) before
Christmas, and all through the tiny community of Pine Cove,
California, people are busy buying, wrapping, packing, and generally
getting into the holiday spirit. It is the hap-hap-happiest time of
the year, after all.
But not everybody is feeling the joy. Little Joshua
Barker is in desperate need of a holiday miracle. No, he's not on his
deathbed; no, his dog hasn't run away from home. But Josh is sure that
he saw Santa take a shovel to the head, and now the seven-year-old has
only one prayer: Please, Santa, come back from the dead.
But hold on! There's an angel waiting in the wings.
(Wings, get it?) Its none other than the Archangel Raziel come to
Earth seeking a small child with a wish that needs granting.
Unfortunately, our angels not sporting the brightest halo in the
bunch, and before you can say "Kris Kringle," he's botched his sacred
mission and sent the residents of Pine Cove headlong into Christmas
chaos, culminating in the most hilarious and horrifying holiday party
the town has ever seen.
Only Christopher Moore, the man who brought you the
outrageous lost gospel Lamb and the hysterical fish tale Fluke could
have devised a new holiday classic that tugs at the heartstrings and
serves up a healthy slice of fruitcake to boot.
Move over, Charles Dickens -- its Christopher Moore
time
The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version
2.0l (2004)
'T'was the night (okay, more like the week) before
Christmas, and all through the tiny community of Pine Cove,
California, people are busy buying, wrapping, packing, and generally
getting into the holiday spirit.
But not everybody is feeling the joy. Little Joshua
Barker is in desperate need of a holiday miracle. No, he's not on his
deathbed; no, his dog hasn't run away from home. But Josh is sure that
he saw Santa take a shovel to the head, and now the seven-year-old has
only one prayer: Please, Santa, come back from the dead.
But hold on! There's an angel waiting in the wings.
(Wings, get it?) It's none other than the Archangel Raziel come to
Earth seeking a small child with a wish that needs granting.
Unfortunately, our angel's not sporting the brightest halo in the
bunch, and before you can say "Kris Kringle," he's botched his sacred
mission and sent the residents of Pine Cove headlong into Christmas
chaos, culminating in the most hilarious and horrifying holiday party
the town has ever seen.
Move over, Charles Dickens -- it's Christopher Moore
time.
A Dirty Job: A Novel (2006)
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.
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