{"product_id":"a-dirty-job-a-novel-isbn-9780060590284","title":"A Dirty Job: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharlie Asher is a pretty normal guy—a quintessential Beta Male—with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a dirty job, being a grim reaper. But, hey! Somebody's gotta do it.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eCharlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a dirty job. But, hey! Somebody's gotta do it. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Dizzyingly inventive and hypnotically engaging, A DIRTY JOB is . . . like no other book I’ve ever read.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Son of a Witch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“#%\u0026amp;@*!—It’s A Dirty Job, but Moore has to do it, delivering another bent cocktail of his designer-brand insanity—and giving the current generation its own Vonnegut, Robbins, and Swift rolled into one. Amen.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTim Dorsey, author of The Big Bamboo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Moore] is superb in this mock epic of death and love.  Smart people will be enormously amused.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Dizzyingly inventive and hypnotically engaging, A Dirty Job is by turns hysterical, severely sad, always brisk and lolloping, and like no other book I’ve ever read.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Son of a Witch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If there’s a funnier writer out there, step forward.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Death, of course, is not usually a funny subject, but in the hands of Christopher Moore it sure is.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHartford Courant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the antic Moore’s funniest capers yet.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] wonderful, whacked-out yarn.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hilarious yet poignant.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHartford Courant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“My top pick for laugh-out-loud reading . . . dark, dark, dark and funny, funny, funny.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSarasota Herald-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Outlandishly funny.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSyracuse Post-Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A DIRTY JOB] will keep a smile on your face long after you put it down.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Outstanding . . . The dialogue follows a zany illogic worthy of the Marx brothers.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Makes you laugh in the face of death.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRocky Mountain News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] wonderful, whacked-out yarn . . . Moore’s enthusiasm and skill make it convincing, and his affection for the cast of weirdos gives the book an unexpected poignancy.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A bravura mix of the familiar and the hilariously original.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDenver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Moore’s signature tossed-off humor is in full effect, and it’s easy to care about his warm, lumpy, honest characters.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“To keep a straight face while reading this book, one would have to be dead already ...  Grade: A.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRocky Mountain News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Moore’s] most speculative, tripped-out and deeply felt book to date.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Oregonian (Portland)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888575049957,"sku":"NP9780060590284","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780060590284.jpg?v=1730229368","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-dirty-job-a-novel-isbn-9780060590284","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}