Mailman : a novel / J. Robert Lennon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lennon, J. Robert, 1970-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Letter carriers--Fiction.

Letter carriers.

Postal service.

Postal service--Fiction.

New York (State)--Fiction.

New York (State).

City and town life--Fiction.

City and town life.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

483 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : W. W. Norton & Company, [2003]

Summary:

THIS EXTRAORDINARY NOVEL is a blackly comic epic, a twisted voyage through small-town America, which tells the story of a brilliant, neurotic man desperately in search of love. Albert Lippincott is a resident of Nestor, New York--mailman extraordinaire, aggressively cheerful, obsessively efficient. But Albert has a few things to hide: his unfortunate habit of reading other people's mail, a nervous breakdown, a disastrous marriage to a nurse, and a sexually ambiguous entanglement with his melodramatic sister. Now his supervisors are on to his letter-hoarding compulsion, and there's a throbbing pain under his right arm. Things are closing in on Albert, who will soon be forced to confront, once and for all, his life's failures. Funny and moving, driven by a wild, compulsive interior voice, Mailman is a unique creation, a deeply original American novel.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is Norton paperback first published in 2004.

ISBN:

0393057313

0393326071

OCLC:

52031487