<![CDATA[The Delivery Man: A Novel]]>

false <![CDATA[The Delivery Man: A Novel]]> 2099223 1 <div><i>The Delivery Man</i> is an exhilarating debut—a fast, frightening, and eye-opening portrait of today’s lost 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, <i>The Delivery Man</i> is a powerful indictment of a society in which personal responsibility has been abandoned, lust is increasingly mistaken for love, and innocence is an anachronism. </div> 2104587 15 1 2007 The Delivery Man: A Novel total:417|5:57|4:92|3:159|2:81|1:28| 417 1320 646 133 4 3 false false Sun Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 19:17:34 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 12:38:26 -0800 2008 5 2 false false Sun Dec 02 14:58:53 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 02 17:55:41 -0800 2007
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Though it is an excellent example of how first novels don't have to be masterpieces, or even decently written. They just have to be first novels. You can only get better, one hopes.

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If you didn't enjoy Less That Zero, then still might like this novel.

It's essentially Bret Easton Ellis lite -- all the misanthropic twentysomething nihilism, but not as many hard drugs. One or two characters in th...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 11 10:54:26 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 02 17:30:25 -0700 2008 "Why?"
"Just to be on the safe side."
"There ...more...]]> 1 1 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 10 20:33:47 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 20:44:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jul 26 19:51:30 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 20:31:20 -0700 2009 1 really good debut novel.

For this first book, McGinniss takes us for a ride alongside Chase, a mid-twenties uninspired artist who becomes a teacher while stuck in his hometown of Las Vegas.
Throughout the novel we see the terrible choices Chase m...more...]]> 1 0 false false Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 06:45:34 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 06:56:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jun 25 19:11:44 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 19:40:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Wed Dec 26 10:47:38 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 26 10:47:46 -0800 2007 by Joe McGinniss Jr. (Grove/Black Cat) It's sex, drugs, and a slew of lost souls in this engrossing story of a 25-year-old known only as Chase. An out-of-luck wannabe artist, he retreats to his hometown—that being Vegas, a downward spiral ensues, thanks to madams...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 25 13:44:28 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 13:47:35 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2099223