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Title: The Delivery Man
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Joe McGinniss, Jr.
Narrator: Noah Michael Levine
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-09-15
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
The Delivery Man is a thrilling and astonishing debut - a scary, fast-paced, and illuminating portrait of the MySpace 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, The Delivery Man is an ambitious literary novel as well as a fast and absorbing pause resister - and a powerful indictment of a society in which personal responsibility has been abandoned, lust is increasingly mistaken for love, and innocence is an anachronism.
Critic Reviews:
"A dead-of-night story surehandedly told in a pared-down, teeth-bared style reminiscent of Joan Didion." (Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander)
"[A] brisk, bleak debut novel... McGinniss manages to whip the yearning and confusion of the woefully inarticulate Chase into dramatic, even gripping fare.... The Delivery Man offers unflinching glimpses at mores in free fall.... Searing... Memorable... Not for the faint of heart." (Ed Park, The New York Times Book Review)
"McGinniss offers a fresh take on the seamy side of Vegas by focusing on the wasted lives of burned-out teens hooked on drugs and money. Even CSI doesn't dig this deep." (Carol Memmott, USA Today)
"Grim, convincing, and compelling... McGinniss charts [his characters'] aimlessness with insight and dexterity. Dare I say it? The Delivery Man really delivers." (Art Taylor, The Washington Post)
Members Reviews:
The Addictions of the Vegas Sex World
This is a gritty and realistic novel about what it must be like to be young and hooked on the "easy" money of the Vegas sex worker's world of young girls and their male pimp partners. The main character has moved into a more legitimate world of education, art and business, classy future wife, etc., but is pulled into the shallow lifestyle of some of his previous high school girlfriends and friends, to temporarily get by and have somewhere to hang out. But like people who get hooked on drugs, he is pulled into this world gradually, fighting it, and yet it is always clear that he will be unable to pull out of his descent into this hellish world. The sex and drugs are never glamorized. It is clear that they all fall gradually into the pit and then can't get out because the money is good, their lives are clouded by drugs and alcohol and it is the world that they are given.
It would have been a better book if we were left with any hope for any of the characters. Perhaps he's telling us it's like having hope for heroin addicts. Once addicted, it's pretty hard to get out.
The book is pretty compelling, it moved well, had interesting characters and painted a realistic world.
