Mailman by J. Robert Lennon [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 2004 • Norton

Mailman by J. Robert Lennon  FIRST  TRADE PAPERBACK PRINTING [2004] W.W. NORTON & COMPANY Very nice reading copy with some mild wear to cover.  First few blurb pages have some minor water staining to margins that tapers off before the actual book begins. [see last photo] - otherwise excellent.  "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 L.A. 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