Bloodsucking fiends : a love story

In a surreal comic novel, Tommy Flood arrives in San Francisco dreaming of becoming the next literary wonder and ends up employed in the local supermarket, where he is pursued by a beautiful vampire. Reprint. At last, a love story you can really sink your teeth into! With a psychedelic inventiveness that invites comparison with Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Robbins, Christopher Moore, the author of Coyote Blue, spins a hip tale of vampires on the loose and in love in San Francisco. When Jody wakes up in an alley, under a dupster, with a badly burned arm and a pain in her neck, she knows it isn't going to be one of her better days. She feels awful, looks worse; her clothes are torn, her sense of smell is suddenly as sharp as an animal's, she can see heat, and she has superhuman strength. And one more thing--she has an insatiable thirst for blood. What she doesn't realize is that this is only the beginning.... C. Thomas Flood (Tommy to his friends) has just arrived in San Francisco, full of dreams of becoming the next literary wunderkind. Instead he ends up working at the local Safeway and playing frozen turkey bowling with the motley night crew. He's also sharing a crowded apartment with five Chinese men who want to marry him in order to keep from getting deproted. Could things get any worse? One night Tommy meets the strikingly beautiful Jody on one of her nocturnal visits to the supermarket and gets the suprise of his life when the casual date they make to meet the next night (after sunset, of course) triggers the start of a relationship destined to span eternity. Life (and the afterlife) will never be the same.... So begins the zany and wildly different love story that is at the heart of Bloodsucking Fiends, a romance novel like none you've ever read before, and a bloodcurdlingly funny vampire story about passion, bloodlust, and blood loss. As in his earlier novels, Moore weaves a touching story that is achingly funny and filled with characters both memorable and real. Death Death Warmed Over Oh Liquid Love Blooms and the City of Burned Clutches Undead and Somewhat Slightly Dazed The Animals Suitors Dinner with the Vampire He Knows If You've Been Bad or Good, So You'd Better... Walking, Talking, and Bumping in the Night Lather, Rinse, Repent Fashionably Doomed To-Do List of the Fashionably Doomed Two Losts Do Not Make a Found Learning the Licks Heartwarming and UL-Approved This Month's Makeover: The Faces of Fear Bugeater of the Barbary Coast Jody's Delicate Condition Angel Angel Dust A Nod to the Queen of the Damned Mom and Terrapin Pie The Return of Breakfast All Dressed Up At the End of the Night... Bridging the Boredom Is That a Blackjack in Your Pocket? Paying Respects Cops and Corpses He Was an Ex-Con, She Was Defrosted... All for One, and...Well, You Know Ship of Fools Hell Breaks Loose Sculptures A budding young writer falls in love with a vampire. He is Tommy of Indiana who moved to San Francisco in search of inspiration and is working in a supermarket. Shopping there is Jody, a secretary still trying to adjust to her new vampire status, after being bitten by one on her way home. A zany tale by the author of Coyote Blue When aspiring young writer Tommy Flood meets beautiful Jody on her nocturnal visit to the supermarket, he unwittingly begins an eternal relationship with a vampire Sundown painted purple across the great Pyramid while the Emperor enjoyed a steaming whiz against a dumpster in the alley below.