Practical DemonkeepingIn 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. |
Contents
Section 14 | 137 |
Section 15 | 144 |
Section 16 | 146 |
Section 17 | 156 |
Section 18 | 161 |
Section 19 | 165 |
Section 20 | 187 |
Section 21 | 194 |
Section 9 | 91 |
Section 10 | 102 |
Section 11 | 114 |
Section 12 | 118 |
Section 13 | 123 |
Section 22 | 205 |
Section 23 | 208 |
Section 24 | 214 |
Section 25 | 241 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Amanda Augustus Brine beer began Bella Big Sur Billy Winston BLOODSUCKING FIENDS Breeze Breeze's candlesticks Catch caves chest Chevy CHRISTOPHER MOORE claws coffee COYOTE BLUE dark demon demonkeeper Djinn door drink Effrom Elliot eyes Father Jasper felt floor front Gian Hen Gian girl gone hair hand head heard hell Hispanic Homer Howard Howard Phillips invocation Jenny living looked Masterson Mavis Merle monster morning Nailsworth never night okay parchment picked Pine Cove PRACTICAL DEMONKEEPING psychedelic mushrooms pulled Rachel Rivera Robert Roxanne scream Seal of Solomon shoulder Slick Slug smiled smoke someone sorry Spider staring started stood stopped story suitcase talking tell thing thought threw told took town trailer Travis truck trying turned voice waiting walked watched Whale wife window wine woman
Popular passages
Page 1 - Like one that on that lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And no more turns his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 89 - Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive...
Page 53 - Oh, purty fair. (He begins to look at her as if he were seeing her for the first time, noting every detail with a numb, stunned astonishment). EMMA. You're looking as well as ever. CALEB, (dully) Oh, I ain't got nothin' to complain of. EMMA. You're the same as me, I reckon. (Happily) Why I seem to get feelin' younger and more chipper every day, I declare I do.
Page 103 - Travis reached into the inside pocket of his sport coat and pulled out a comic book.
Page 147 - I mean, when you were a little girl, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Page 18 - ... and effective purpose. It had been proposed on the motion of Virginia. Eight days after the declaration of independence, articles of confederation were reported. It was an obvious necessity of the war. The average population of the colonies was less than two hundred and thirty thousand inhabitants ; and it would have been absurd for any one of them to attempt to measure arms singly with the British power, and for each to conduct the war on its own responsibility. It was fortunate indeed that...
Page 192 - She was supposed to be the one in charge here, yet the old woman and the demon seemed to know more about what was going on than she did. "They can't go, " Catch said. "Why? We have the invocation; we just need to get it translated. Let them go. " "No,
Page 31 - His hair was slicked back and tied in a ponytail with a black silk ribbon.
Page 104 - For the next few minutes all she could think of was getting to a restroom where she could remove the spotted wads.