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body (and I have no idea who she was talking about at the time).
Dr. Alan Peters for medical information.
Shelly Lowenkopf for supplying out-of-print books on cargo cults.
Jim Silke and Lynn Rathbun for drawings and maps.
Ian Corsan for advice on equipment and how to survive in the tropics.
Charlee Rodgers, Dee Dee Leichtfuss, Liz Ziemska, and Christina Harcar
for careful readings and helpful suggestions.
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Nick Ellison, my agent and friend, for helping to keep the wolf from the
door while I wrote.
Rachel Klayman and Chris Condry, my editors at Avon Books, for their
confidence and support.
And most of all, my thanks to novelist Jean Brody, who took the time
from her own writing to do a line edit on Love Nun.
While all the above people helped in the research and writing of this
book, none of them are responsible for the liberties I took with the inform-
ation they gave me. When in doubt, assume that I made everything up.
Christopher Moore
November 1996
About the Author
Christopher Moore is the author of seven novels, including this one.
He began writing at age six and became the oldest known child
prodigy when, in his early thirties, he published his first novel. His
turn-ons are the ocean, playing the toad lotto, and talking animals
on TV. His turn-offs are salmonella, traffic, and rude people. Chris
enjoys cheese crackers, acid jazz, and otter scrubbing. He lives in an
inaccessible island fortress in the Pacific. You can e-mail him at
BSFiends@aol.com. Visit the official Christopher Moore website at
www.chrismoore.com.
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PRAISE FOR
Christopher Moore
Fluke
Moore is endlessly inventive& . This cetacean picaresque is no fluke it
is a sure winner.
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Lamb
An instant classic& . Terrific, funny, and poignant.
Rocky Mountain News
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
Reads like author Christopher Moore laughed his head off while writing
it, quite possibly taking hits of nitrous oxide between sentences.
Miami Herald
Island of the Sequined Love Nun
Humor that seamlessly blends lunacy with larceny& habit-forming
zaniness& . The careers of the writers with even a quarter as much wit and
joie de vivre as Moore are always worth following.
USA Today
Bloodsucking Fiends
Goofy grotesqueries& wonderful& delicious& bloody funny& like a hip
and youthful Abbott and Costello Meet the Lugosis.
San Francisco Chronicle
Coyote Blue
Brilliant& . Moore s raucous, lewd, hip novel is part love story and part
spiritual search.
Santa Barbara Independent
Practical Demonkeeping
Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word.
Carl Hiaasen
ALSO BY
Christopher Moore
Practical Demonkeeping
Coyote Blue
Bloodsucking Fiends
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff,
Christ s Childhood Pal
Fluke: Or, I Know Why the
Winged Whale Sings
Credits
Designed by Kellan Peck
Map by Lynn Rathbun
Cover illustration and typography by Ruth Marten
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of
the author s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real.
Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead,
is entirely coincidental.
ISLAND OF THE SEQUINED LOVE NUN. Copyright © 1997 by Christopher Moore. All
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The lust lizard of Melancholy Cove/Christopher Moore.
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