NOIR - Christopher Moore

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~ Standard Hardcover San Francisco. Summer, 1947: An enigmatic, comely blonde named Stilton (like the cheese) walks into the scruffy gin joint where Sammy "Two Toes" Tiffin tends b ar. It’s love at first sight, but before Sammy can make his move, an Air Force general named Remy arrives with some urgent business . . . Absurdly outrageous, sarcastically satiric, and always entertaining, Noir is a zany romp set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco featuring a diverse cast of characters, snappy dialogue, perverse scenarios, pun-laden prose, sick sight gags, and wicked, occasionally raunchy, humour that readers have come to expect from one of North America's funniest living writers. "A pedal-to-the-metal, exquisitely written comic romp through a neon-lit San Francisco that may never have actually existed, but that, in Moore's supremely talented hands, sure feels like it could have." -- Booklist Show more