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flanks picked up a signal. Something he had not felt for half a century, the
signature of a creature he thought he would never feel again. He flipped
his tail and shook off the crust of loneliness that had settled over him, and
that organ buried deep beneath his reptile brain picked up a message
coming from the female. Roughly translated, it said, Hey, sailor, want to
get lucky?
Acknowledgments
My thanks to Dr. Kenneth Berv and Dr. Roger Wunderlich for their advice
on mental health and psychoactive drugs; to Galen and Lynn Rathbun for
help with biology and rat tagging information; to Charlee Rodgers, Dee
Dee Leichtfuss, and Jean Brody for manuscript readings and comments;
to Nick Ellison for agent stuff; to Rachel Klayman for patience and precision
in her editing; and finally to all those people who were willing to share
their experiences with antidepressants and other psychotropic drugs you
know who you are, you crazy fucks. (Just kidding.)
About the Author
CHRISTOPHER MOORE is the author of seven novels, including this one. He
began writing at age six and became the oldest known child prodigy when,
in his early thirties, he published his first novel. His turn-ons are the ocean,
playing the toad lotto, and talking animals on TV. His turn-offs are salmo-
nella, traffic, and rude people. Chris enjoys cheese crackers, acid jazz, and
otter scrubbing. He lives in an inaccessible island fortress in the Pacific.
You can e-mail him at BSFiends@aol.com. Visit the official Christopher
Moore website at www.chrismoore.com.
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PRAISE FOR
Christopher Moore
Fluke
Moore is endlessly inventive& . This cetacean picaresque is
no fluke it is a sure winner.
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Lamb
An instant classic& . Terrific, funny, and poignant.
Rocky Mountain News
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
Reads like author Christopher Moore laughed his head off
while writing it, quite possibly taking hits of nitrous oxide
between sentences.
Miami Herald
Island of the Sequined Love Nun
Humor that seamlessly blends lunacy with
larceny& habit-forming zaniness& . The careers of the writers
with even a quarter as much wit and joie de vivre as Moore
are always worth following.
USA Today
Bloodsucking Fiends
Goofy grotesqueries& wonderful& delicious& bloody
funny& like a hip and youthful Abbott and Costello Meet the
Lugosis.
San Francisco Chronicle
Coyote Blue
Brilliant& .Moore s raucous, lewd, hip novel is part love story
and part spiritual search.
Santa Barbara Independent
Practical Demonkeeping
Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense
of the word.
Carl Hiaasen
ALSO BY
Christopher Moore
Practical Demonkeeping
Coyote Blue
Bloodsucking Fiends
Island of the Sequined Love Nun
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff,
Christ s Childhood Pal
Fluke: Or, I Know Why the
Winged Whale Sings
Credits
Designed by Kellan Peck
Cover illustration and typography by Ruth Marten
Copyright
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is entirely coincidental.
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