Book description
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. Christopher Moore began writing at the age of six
and became the oldest known child prodigy when, in his early thirties,
he published his first novel. Chris enjoys cheese crackers, acid jazz,
and otter scrubbing and lives in an inaccessible island fortress in the
Pacific.
