Bloodsucking Fiends
Subtitle: a love story
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780684810973
Subjects: Vampires -- Fiction.; Women -- California -- Fiction.; San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.
First sentence: Sundown painted purple across the great Pyramid while the Emperor enjoyed a steaming whiz against a dumpster in the alley below.
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Death; title: Death Warmed Over; title: Oh Liquid Love; title: Blooms and the City of Burned Clutches; title: Undead and Somewhat Slightly Dazed; title: The Animals; title: Suitors; title: Dinner with the Vampire; title: He Knows If You've Been Bad or Good, So You'd Better...; title: Walking, Talking, and Bumping in the Night; title: Lather, Rinse, Repent; title: Fashionably Doomed; title: To-Do List of the Fashionably Doomed; title: Two Losts Do Not Make a Found; title: Learning the Licks; title: Heartwarming and UL-Approved; title: This Month's Makeover: The Faces of Fear; title: Bugeater of the Barbary Coast; title: Jody's Delicate Condition; title: Angel; title: Angel Dust; title: A Nod to the Queen of the Damned; title: Mom and Terrapin Pie; title: The Return of Breakfast; title: All Dressed Up; title: At the End of the Night...; title: Bridging the Boredom; title: Is That a Blackjack in Your Pocket?; title: Paying Respects; title: Cops and Corpses; title: He Was an Ex-Con, She Was Defrosted...; title: All for One, and...Well, You Know; title: Ship of Fools; title: Hell Breaks Loose; title: Sculptures