![]() ![]() It doesn’t hurt that they also glow bright red, and when he’s about the business of soul retrieval most people just don’t happen to notice Charlie. First, the soul is usually contained in some object that would be sold in a secondhand store: a clock radio, used suit, or even a blender. ![]() His routine is: get up in the morning, check the daybook for any names that have mysteriously appeared there, go to their homes, retrieve the soul of the recently departed, and take it back to his secondhand store where he will sell it to its next body. First of all, his beloved wife Rachel dies just after giving birth to their first child, and secondly, his new job of retrieving the souls of the newly dead, to keep them safe for their next host, has made death part of his daily routine. ![]() Letting your mind go down that avenue is to invite anxiety and all his buddies over for a long-term visit.īut in Christopher Moore’s latest novel, A Dirty Job, Charlie Asher really doesn’t have much choice in the matter. Not only is it depressing, but it could end up being self-defeating in a, “what’s the point of this, we’re all going to die in the end anyway,” sort of way. ![]() Not very many of us think about death on a daily basis. ![]()
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