“Makes you laugh in the face of death.” — Rocky Mountain News
“[Moore] is superb in this mock epic of death and love. Smart people will be enormously amused.” — Library Journal (starred review)
“My top pick for laugh-out-loud reading . . . dark, dark, dark and funny, funny, funny.” — Sarasota Herald-Tribune
“Hilarious yet poignant.” — Hartford Courant
“Outlandishly funny.” — Syracuse Post-Standard
“One of the antic Moore’s funniest capers yet.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Dizzyingly inventive and hypnotically engaging, A DIRTY JOB is . . . like no other book I’ve ever read.” — Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Son of a Witch
“[A] wonderful, whacked-out yarn.” — Publishers Weekly
“Moore’s signature tossed-off humor is in full effect, and it’s easy to care about his warm, lumpy, honest characters.” — Entertainment Weekly
“To keep a straight face while reading this book, one would have to be dead already ... Grade: A.” — Rocky Mountain News
“[Moore’s] most speculative, tripped-out and deeply felt book to date.” — The Oregonian (Portland)
“A bravura mix of the familiar and the hilariously original.” — Denver Post
“[A DIRTY JOB] will keep a smile on your face long after you put it down.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Outstanding . . . The dialogue follows a zany illogic worthy of the Marx brothers.” — Washington Post Book World
“Death, of course, is not usually a funny subject, but in the hands of Christopher Moore it sure is.” — Hartford Courant