Practical Demonkeeping
Author | : Christopher Moore |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2009-11-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780748114436 |
ISBN-13 | : 0748114432 |
Rating | : 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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 travelling 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.