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Las Vegas’ta
gecen bu roman, MySpace kuşağının korkutucu, sürükleyici ve
aydınlatıcı portresidir.
Chase, New
York’taki üniversite eğitimini tamamladıktan sonra Vegas’a döner.
Vegas’ta çok iyi para kazandıran, ama çok da tehlikeli olan telekız
hizmeti dünyasına girer. Chase, trajik bir geçmişi paylaştığı,
Salvadorlu güzel göçmen Michele ile beraber bir yaz boyunca
yaşadıkları şehir ve ait oldukları kuşağın içindeki şiddet ve
gönüllerindeki boşlukla yüzleşeceklerdir.
Korkutucu olduğu kadar
ümit verici THE DELIVERY MAN, aynı zamanda kişisel sorumluluğun
kenara atıldığı, şehvetin sevgi ile karıştırıldığı ve masumiyetin
modası geçmiş bir kavram olduğu bir toplumu itham ediyor. |
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Description:
An exhilarating and eye-opening debut novel about today’s
lost generation, set in Las Vegas amid a teenage call-girl service,
with a powerful love story at its heart
“Powerful and compelling, a novel of nonstop tension in a
landscape so modern, so up to the minute, that you can set your
watch by it. And while it reminds me of Hunter Thompson and Robert
Stone, it is also a book by a young writer whose talent is at once
fierce and entirely new. Fresh, haunting, the kind of book that
keeps you up at night to turn the pages.” —Craig Nova, author of
Cruisers and The
Good Son
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 page-turner—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.
Praise
“A gripping literary thriller and an auspicious debut.” —George
Pelecanos
“This is a thrilling debut—a novel about youth wasting itself
knowingly against the laid-back, glossy, trademark amorality of Las
Vegas, told in a voice that sounds like that of a slightly older,
hipper Holden Caulfield, coming of age in a place which has no past
or future—only the cool, gleaming, terrifying present. Sexy,
touching, always shrewdly observed, and with a killer ending, The
Delivery Man is the Less Than Zero of the early 2000s—and
the first step in what I am sure will be a remarkable career.” —Michael
Korda, author of Another Life and Charmed Lives
“Poor Chase: he feels like God’s Lonely Man, all longing and
disillusionment, and no one disappoints him more than he disappoints
himself. He’s part of a longstanding American tradition of hard guys
with soft centers, guys with an exquisitely calibrated sense of
their own self-degradation, like one of Bret Easton Ellis’s heroes
refracted through Raymond Chandler. The Delivery Man is
arresting on the way, in the face of our undoing, we’re inadequate
but still culpable, and idealistic but still paralyzed.” —Jim
Shepard, author of Love and Hydrogen and Project X
“Powerful and compelling, a novel of nonstop tension in a landscape
so modern, so up to the minute, that you can set your watch by it.
And while it reminds me of Hunter Thompson and Robert Stone, it is
also a book by a young writer whose talent is at once fierce and
entirely new. Fresh, haunting, the kind of book that keeps you up at
night to turn the pages.” —Craig Nova, author of Cruisers and
The Good Son |
