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Christopher Moore : Coyote Blue
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Author: Christopher Moore
Title: Coyote Blue
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Published in: English
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Date: 1995-07
ISBN: 0380725231
Publisher: Perennial
Weight: 0.55 pounds
Size: 5.3 x 7.9 x 0.6 inches
Edition: 1st Pb
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Sam Hunter has spent twenty
years escaping his past. Now it has
caught up to him in the weirdest
of all possible ways.

As a boy growing up in Montana, he was Samson Hunts Alone -- until a deadly misunderstanding with the law forced him to flee the Crow reservation at age fifteen. Today he is a successful Santa Barbara insurance salesman with a Mercedes, a condo and a hollow, invented life. The one day, shortly after his thirty-fifth birthday, destiny offers Samuel Hunter the dangerous gift of love in the exquisite form of Calliope Kincaid -- and a curse in the unheralded appearance of an ancient Indian god by the name of Coyote. Coyote, the trickster, has arrived to transform tranquility into chaos, to reawaken the mystical storyteller within Sam . . . and to seriously screw up his existence in the process.

From Christopher Moore, author of Practical Demonkeeping, comes a quirky, irreverent new novel of love, myth, metphysics, outlaw biking, angst and outrageous redemption.


Amazon.com Review
This is an accelerating comedy with shadows setting off the wry, polished humor. Trickster deities thrive on contrariety, which is why one finds them bringing life into dead landscapes and disorder into order. A Santa Barbara insurance salesman's too-tidily-contained lifestyle, far from the Crow reservation he grew up on, is an irresistible target for Coyote, who wants to make sure his chosen people don't forget him. Coyote descends on Sam Hunter like one of Job's plagues, albeit a charmingly disingenuous one. "Why me? Why not someone who believes?" asks Sam, suffering from god-induced chaos. "This is more fun," says Coyote. He's right.

Reviews: Forestpirate (Canada) (2006/10/31):
Minor wear from reading.



Kendra (USA: MN) (2008/06/23):
I thought this was one of the more "quiet" Christopher Moore books. The characters and situations were less dramatic than a lot of his other books. It was still a fun read, but not a standout.



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