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Mailman tells the blackly comic story of Albert Lippincott.
W. W. Norton & Company
October 2004
On Sale: September 30, 2004
Featuring: Albert Lippincott.
496 pages
ISBN: 0393326071
EAN: 9780393326079
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Fiction
"'Masterpiece' would be an exaggeration, but only a small
one."—Andrew Ervin, Washington Post Book World "A
phantasmagoria of American paranoia and self-loathing in the
person of a deranged but somehow good-hearted middle-aged
mail carrier in steep decline, the book hums with a kind of
chipper angst," writes Jonathan Lethem in the Los Angeles
Times Book Review. Mailman tells the blackly comic story of Albert Lippincott. Albert is Nestor, New York's mailman
extraordinaire—aggressively cheerful, obsessively efficient.
But he also has a few things to hide: his habit of reading
other people's mail, a nervous breakdown, and a sexually
ambiguous entanglement with his 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.
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