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Mailman
a novel
By Lennon, J. Robert
- ISBN
- 978-0-39305-731-7
- Publisher
- New York ; W.W. Norton & Co., c2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2003
Like Joseph Heller's John Yossarian (Catch-22) and Ken Kesey's Randle McMurphy (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), Alfred Lippincott, Lennon's titular mailman, is destined to become one of the great characters in American literature. Having first arrived as a student, he has lived and worked in a small, upstate New York college town for over 30 years. Bright, passionate, and neurotic, he suffered a breakdown while studying that haunts his existence, and at 57 he has become "lost in his own lif...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
