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Description
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who's always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets... read more
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Charlie Asher: A "beta-male" who owns a second-hand store in San Francisco with a side job of retrieving the souls of the dying.
First Sentence
Charlie Asher walked the earth like an ant walks on the surface of water, as if the slightest misstep might send him plummeting through the surface to be sucked to the depths below.
Table of Contents
I. Part One: The Sorry Business
1. Because I Could Not Stop For Death, He Kindly Stopped For Me
2. A Fine Edge
3. Beneath the Number Forty-one Bus
4. The Beta Male In His Natural Environment
5. Darkness Gets Uppity
6. Variable Speed Heroes
7. Thanatoast
8. A Streetcar Named Confusion
9. The Dragon, the Bear, and the Fish
II. Part Two: Secondhand Souls
10. Death Takes a Walk
11. The Girls Can Get a Little Dark At Times
12. The Bay City Book of the Dead
13. Cry Havoc, and Let Slip the Gogs of War!
14. Barking Mad
15. The Call of Booty
16. The Call of Booty II: Requiem For a Fuck Puppet
17. Was It Good For You?
18. Yo Momma So Dead That…
III. Part Three: Battleground
19. We're Okay, As Long As Things Don't Get Weird
20. Attack of the Crocodile Guy
21. Common Courtesy
22. Reconsidering a Career in Secondhand Retail
23. A Fucked-up Day
24. Audrey and the Squirrel People
25. The Rhythm of Lost and Found
26. Orpheus in the Storm Sewer
27. Bitch's Brew
Epilogue
Author's Note and Ackowledgements
Authors & Contributors
- Christopher Moore (Author)
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