false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172967331m/233927.jpg 233927 6 <B>"'Masterpiece' would be an exaggeration, but only a small one."&#151;Andrew Ervin, <I>Washington Post Book World</I></B> <P>"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 <I>Los Angeles Times Book Review. Mailman</I> tells the blackly comic story of Albert Lippincott. Albert is Nestor, New York's mailman extraordinaire&#151;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, <I>Mailman</I> is a unique creation, a deeply original American novel. Already optioned to the movies, this astonishing and kinetically charged tale was one of the most exuberantly praised novels of 2003. 517868 2003 Mailman: A Novel total:127|5:26|4:43|3:34|2:20|1:4| 127 448 217 19 5 0 false false Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 16:26:14 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 15:01:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Dec 02 17:15:36 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 02 17:17:04 -0800 2007
But this book ... what is this book? It's a long slog through the life of a pathetic man who was a pathetic child and will die leaving a path...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Oct 25 20:28:10 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 25 20:36:31 -0700 2008
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The main storyline takes place over a week, but through a lot of flashbacks we get to know Albert very well.

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