Author: Christopher Moore
Translator: So-yeon Hwang
Publisher: Minumsa
553 pages | 210*140mm
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About This Book
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.
Christopher Moore, the man whose Lamb served up Jesus' "missing years"
(with the funny parts left in), and whose Fluke found the deep humor in
whale researchers' lives, now shines his comic light on the undiscovered
country we all eventually explore -- death and dying -- and the results
are hilarious, heartwarming, and a hell of a lot of fun.
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