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Praise for Christopher Moore: 'Wickedly funny' Waterstone's Books Quarterly, 'Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word' Carl Hiaasen, 'Humour that seamlessly blends lunacy with larceny ... habit forming zaniness' USA Today, 'Moore is endlessly inventive ... This cetacean picaresque is no fluke - it is a sure winner' Publishers Weekly
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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 Samuel Hunter, a successful Santa Barbara insurance salesman with a Mercedes, a condo, and a hollow, invented life. Then one day, shortly after his thirty-fifth birthday, destiny offers him 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 tranquillity into chaos, to reawaken the mystical storyteller within Sam ...and to seriously screw up his existence in the process.
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While magic powder was sprinkled on the sidewalk outside, Samuel Hunter moved around his office like a machine, firing out phone calls, checking computer printouts, and barking orders to his secretary. Read the first page
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you are already a fan and need a Moore "fix," this novel will keep you thoroughly occupied with its wacky charm, its light-hearted approach to cosmic issues, and its skewed, but respectful, treatment of Native American life and traditions. Coming after Practical Demonkeeping, his debut novel, it has many of the elements for which Moore has become so (justly) popular with his later novels, though its plot and characters are not as fully developed, and the book is not as outrageous or crazily funny as those.
Sam Hunter, the main character, is a 35-year-old California insurance salesman, a Crow Indian whose real name is Sam Hunts Alone. Having attacked a policeman as a teen, Sam became a fugitive from the Crow Agency, and now, twenty years later, leads a totally predictable, boring life--that is, until Old Man Coyote (the trickster), Sam's spiritual helper, arrives, bringing "chaos--the new order in his life."
A beautiful woman, her biker-druggie-ex-lover, and an assortment of wackos, stir up the action, as Sam tries to figure out who he really is and, with Coyote's "help," learn what he is capable of. Lots of wild action and some potentially hilarious scenes are reined in, a bit, by Moore's focus on Sam's Indian traditions and why they are, or should be, important to him, a subject serious enough to curtail the uninhibited flights of craziness that we now expect from Moore. This is fun, but it's a somewhat more thoughtful novel, overall, than the outrageous, campy stories for which Moore is now famous. Mary Whipple
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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It seems this author started out as a well kept secret and is becoming the darling of the literary crowd - at least on the Internet! If you haven't read Coyote Blue, you'd better step it up. This is a book for everyone. Well researched, its philosophy is shrouded in serendipitous whimsey and moments of down right, laugh out loud, humor. Moore juxtaposes Native American Folk Lore against the crass gawdiness of American materialism, sending a culture clash reverberation that will stir your soul and evoke your laughter. Even intellectual curmedgeons have been caught guffawing over this one. Consider it your gift giving solution for 1997!
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This chap is nothing like pratchett but the sense of ridiculous hits the spot and the books are well written - buy one woul dbe my advice and read it for yourself - I intend to read them all...
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Not bad, but Neil Gaimen's 'American Gods' knocks it into a cocked hat. A couple of laughs,though, and strong on the sheer gobsmacking idiocy that is the terrifying face of... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Anthony Long
Coyote Blue
First book I've read by this author and not a bad effort. Not my favourite read but a worthwhile romp and worth a read.
Published 18 months ago by JCEH
Just a damn good story!
Christopher Moore is not an author I have read previously but I will certainly be reading 'Moore' in the future.
Published 19 months ago by A. P. Hayward
Coyote Blue
Excellent book, as with all Christopher Moore's books you have to accept the "weirdness".
I have all the books he's written (lamb being a true masterpiece) and I'm up to... Read more
I have all the books he's written (lamb being a true masterpiece) and I'm up to... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Mrs. Yh Davis
There ain't no cure for Coyote Blue
A good review should start with a summary of the plot, but with this book that's impossible if I am not going to ruin the enjoyment of its off the wall wackiness. Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2009 by Andrew Dalby
Off the wall
I'd never read any of Cristopher Moore's books before and after Coyote Blue I'm looking forwards to others. The closest reference I can use is the work of Carl Hiaasen. Read more
Published on 16 Nov 2006 by Mr. G. Battle
From a new Christopher Moore fan
Amazon profiled me and recommended this book. I never heard of Christopher Moore, and now I'm a fan. How did they know? Read more
Published on 22 Jun 1999
A mischievous romp with an ancient Indian god !
This is a non-stop rout, chock full of irreverent fun. The story is a gas on its own, but as if that were not enough, it is sprinkled with hilarious modern-day hybrid versions of... Read more
Published on 7 May 1999
A wild ride!
Thoroughly enjoyable. Funny with a bit of sadness. It's a wild ride through the life of Sam Hunter.
Published on 6 April 1999
outrageously funny, yet morally relevant
I bought the book because I was intrigued by the cover. Laughed out loud while reading it, and was sorry when it ended. Read more
Published on 2 Aug 1998
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