--- product_id: 15164680 title: "A Dirty Job: A Novel" price: "NZ$41" currency: NZD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.nz/products/15164680-a-dirty-job-a-novel store_origin: NZ region: New Zealand --- # A Dirty Job: A Novel **Price:** NZ$41 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** A Dirty Job: A Novel - **How much does it cost?** NZ$41 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.nz](https://www.desertcart.nz/products/15164680-a-dirty-job-a-novel) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Charlie 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. It's a dirty job, being a grim reaper. But, hey! Somebody's gotta do it. Review: 5 stars for the story and 5 stars for the narrator Fisher Stevens - This book was given to me by my son-in-law. When I started reading it I did not understand why he would give me such a strange book? I could not get into it. But I did not want to disappoint him so I resolved to at least give it a try. Since I love audio books, I added audio to this book and voila, the book took a totally new meaning. I love the narrator Fisher Stevens and listening to him brought the book to live. The book is funny and sweet and strange and I loved Charlie Asher. The story takes place over number of years where newborn Sophie is growing up on top floor of Charlie’s second hand clothing store. She is being cared for by two immigrant ladies Chinese and Russian. The talent of Fisher Stevens is so great that all character voices and accents are tailored to the characters, recognizable and in case of babysitters very funny because they were so real sounding. Charlie Asher is identified as Beta male, which according to the book description is dependable, loyal, responsible and sensible individual. It sounds boring but Charlie is far from it – Charlie is a Death Merchant and Soul Collector. Since Charlies wife Rachel died right after Sophie was born, Charlie is raising her himself and she is the most important person in his life, but his job sometimes takes him away from Sophie under most unusual circumstances. The writing is very good. The dialogue between the different characters is so real and entertaining that it reminded me of my own family gatherings. All characters are worth mentioning – Lillie, the Goth girl; Ray, the retired disabled detective; Charlie’s sister Jane who can’t decide on her life partner and Charlie’s daughter Sophie, who just by saying word “kitty” makes people and animals disappear. And the ending did not disappoint. 5 stars for the story and 5 stars for the narrator Fisher Stevens Review: Snappy Up To, Almost, The End - I have enjoyed every book by Christopher Moore that I have ever read, and "A Dirty Job" is no exception. Moore organizes deadpan and smart-alecky humor into crisp dialog and snappy prose passages that breathe real life into outlandish scenes of supernatural mayhem. His characters are so ridiculously quirky that they actually seem real--Moore just takes pedestrian personality foibles and develops them to their most hilarious ends, and I don't know of any writer who does this as well as Moore (except possibly Gore Vidal in "Live from Golgotha"). This is Moore's stock-in-trade, this is what makes his books so fun to read and so endearingly memorable: these little personality tics that the reader recognizes from real life, which the reader then gets to experience vicariously at their most ridiculous. Where Moore does fall short from time to time, though, is in his endings, which sometimes seem forced and clipped, as if he had run out of enthusiasm for a story and was already cultivating the next story in his mind, or as if his enthusiasm had allowed a story to run long and an editor was pushing him to wrap it up for publication. Regardless the reason, this is what happens in "A Dirty Job". Each of the characters develops well, as does the story itself, and Moore should be lauded for not recycling his earlier character profiles into his later novels. Charlie Asher, the central character in "A Dirt Job", is not just a reworked character from a previous book, but is a new character who brings his own voice to the story. But that story comes to a weak end, drawn across just a few pages, and this after several hundred pages of depth and good reading. This unsatisfying ending probably warrants the deduction of two stars, but most of the book was too enjoyable for that so I will just deduct one. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #50,515 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #37 in Absurdist Fiction (Books) #98 in Feel-Good Fiction #113 in Humorous American Literature | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 5,207 Reviews | ## Images ![A Dirty Job: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71gQdfmO5QL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Language, Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5 stars for the story and 5 stars for the narrator Fisher Stevens *by B***M on January 5, 2017* This book was given to me by my son-in-law. When I started reading it I did not understand why he would give me such a strange book? I could not get into it. But I did not want to disappoint him so I resolved to at least give it a try. Since I love audio books, I added audio to this book and voila, the book took a totally new meaning. I love the narrator Fisher Stevens and listening to him brought the book to live. The book is funny and sweet and strange and I loved Charlie Asher. The story takes place over number of years where newborn Sophie is growing up on top floor of Charlie’s second hand clothing store. She is being cared for by two immigrant ladies Chinese and Russian. The talent of Fisher Stevens is so great that all character voices and accents are tailored to the characters, recognizable and in case of babysitters very funny because they were so real sounding. Charlie Asher is identified as Beta male, which according to the book description is dependable, loyal, responsible and sensible individual. It sounds boring but Charlie is far from it – Charlie is a Death Merchant and Soul Collector. Since Charlies wife Rachel died right after Sophie was born, Charlie is raising her himself and she is the most important person in his life, but his job sometimes takes him away from Sophie under most unusual circumstances. The writing is very good. The dialogue between the different characters is so real and entertaining that it reminded me of my own family gatherings. All characters are worth mentioning – Lillie, the Goth girl; Ray, the retired disabled detective; Charlie’s sister Jane who can’t decide on her life partner and Charlie’s daughter Sophie, who just by saying word “kitty” makes people and animals disappear. And the ending did not disappoint. 5 stars for the story and 5 stars for the narrator Fisher Stevens ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Snappy Up To, Almost, The End *by S***E on July 24, 2007* I have enjoyed every book by Christopher Moore that I have ever read, and "A Dirty Job" is no exception. Moore organizes deadpan and smart-alecky humor into crisp dialog and snappy prose passages that breathe real life into outlandish scenes of supernatural mayhem. His characters are so ridiculously quirky that they actually seem real--Moore just takes pedestrian personality foibles and develops them to their most hilarious ends, and I don't know of any writer who does this as well as Moore (except possibly Gore Vidal in "Live from Golgotha"). This is Moore's stock-in-trade, this is what makes his books so fun to read and so endearingly memorable: these little personality tics that the reader recognizes from real life, which the reader then gets to experience vicariously at their most ridiculous. Where Moore does fall short from time to time, though, is in his endings, which sometimes seem forced and clipped, as if he had run out of enthusiasm for a story and was already cultivating the next story in his mind, or as if his enthusiasm had allowed a story to run long and an editor was pushing him to wrap it up for publication. Regardless the reason, this is what happens in "A Dirty Job". Each of the characters develops well, as does the story itself, and Moore should be lauded for not recycling his earlier character profiles into his later novels. Charlie Asher, the central character in "A Dirt Job", is not just a reworked character from a previous book, but is a new character who brings his own voice to the story. But that story comes to a weak end, drawn across just a few pages, and this after several hundred pages of depth and good reading. This unsatisfying ending probably warrants the deduction of two stars, but most of the book was too enjoyable for that so I will just deduct one. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Boy, donI love Christopher Moore *by R***C on August 29, 2026* This book? Beyond fun and filled with a remarkable regard for humanity…..and comedy. 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