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 thirty-year veteran of the Nestor New York Post Office—a letter carrier extraordinaire, aggressively cheerful, obsessively efficient. But Albert has a few things to hide. Mailman is a blackly comic epic—a voyage through small-town America, and through the interior life of its most neurotic mailman. Lippincott, and Lennon, hold us captive with a wild narrative voice fuelled by desperation and a touch of madness.

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