Review: A Dirty Job
Christopher Moore is one big surprise. How would a reader expect him to deal with death and souls? With humor, compassion and wit? In A Dirty Job , Moore addresses this subject with a Beta male, hellhounds, secondhand-store owners and a well-dressed lesbian. Charlie doesn't expect to win the heart of Rachel, the woman of his dreams, but sometimes life gives. Then it takes away: at the birth of their first child, a tall man in a mint-green outfit picks up her favorite CD and leaves as she breathes her las — only Charlie wasn't supposed to be able to see him. Faced with raising his daughter Sophie alone, he returns to his secondhand merchandise store in San Francisco to figure out the rest of his life — and doesn't get a mail delivery that would change his life. Again Christopher Moore creates absurd situations and quirky, lovable characters who spout some of the funniest dialogue and share amazing, snort-worthy observations. Sophie can't say "kitty."