The Delivery Man

A Novel

Joe McGinniss, Jr., Jr.

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Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
22 April 2008

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

The Delivery Man is a thrilling and astonishing debut-a scary, fast-paced, and illuminating portrait of the MySpace generation. It is a love story set against the surreal excess of Las Vegas-and the artificial suburbs, gated communities, and freeways that surround it-where broken lives come to seek new beginnings and casinos feed the lust of tourists and residents alike. Ultrasophisticated local kids grow up fast and burn out early.

After attending college in New York, Chase returns to Vegas and is drawn into the lucrative but dangerous world of a teenage call-girl service with his childhood friend Michele, a beautiful Salvadoran immigrant with whom he shares a tragic past. Over the course of one extraordinary summer they will confront the violence and emptiness at the heart of the city and their generation.

At once stark and electrically atmospheric, horrifying and hopeful, The Delivery Man is an ambitious literary novel as well as a fast and absorbing page-turner-and a powerful indictment of a society in which personal responsibility has been abandoned, lust is increasingly mistaken for love, and innocence is an anachronism.

By: Joe McGinniss Jr. Jr.
Imprint: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780802170422
ISBN 10: 0802170420
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 22 April 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Delivery Man: A Novel

A dead-of-night story surehandedly told in a pared-down, teeth-bared style reminiscent of Joan Didion. -Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander <br> [A] flashy, fast-moving debut . . . McGinniss successfully gambles with the notion that whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. -- Publishers Weekly <br> [A] brisk, bleak debut novel...McGinniss manages to whip the yearning and confusion of the woefully inarticulate Chase into dramatic, even gripping fare.... The Delivery Man offers unflinching glimpses at mores in free fall....Searing...Memorable...Not for the faint of heart. -Ed Park, The New York Times Book Review <br> McGinniss offers a fresh take on the seamy side of Vegas by focusing on the wasted lives of burned-out teens hooked on drugs and money. Even CSI doesn't dig this deep. --Carol Memmott, USA Today <br> It's sex, drugs, and a slew of lost souls in this engrossing story of a twenty-five-year-old known only as Chase. An out-of-luck wannabe artist, he