Practical Demonkeeping

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 Traveling 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.

publishers Weekly

a People-eating Demon Threatens A Sleepy California Resort Town In Moore's Offbeat, Witty Debut. (nov.)