Paperback, 243 pages
English language
Published June 13, 1995 by St Martins Mass Market Paper.
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 facade 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.
This was Christopher Moore's first book and it largely establishes the location and characters for his subsequent books. Big on characters, little on plot. Kinda entertaining, but I wouldn't recommend it. Lamb is still his best.
