Mailman (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: J. Robert Lennon
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: June, 2000
- Setting: Nestor, a fictional city in upstate New York
- Principal Characters: Albert Lippincott, Lenore Inness, Semma, Len Ronk, Gillian Lippincott, Marsha, Maurice Renault, Jared Sprain, Gary Garrity, Kelly Vireo, Mr. Edgar Lippincott
- Genres: Long fiction, Novel
- Subjects: New York, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Ghosts or apparitions, Cancer, Sick persons, Single people, Hallucinations or illusions, Isolation
- Locales: New York, Fictional locale
In his earlier novels, like The Light of Falling Stars (1997) and The Funnies (1999), J. Robert Lennon portrays characters who are emotionally out of sorts and who are forced by events to realize that life is filled with disappointments and miscues but that, nevertheless, the world goes on. Lennon’s novel Mailman pursues the same themes, and the author’s point is made more overtly and poignantly here than in any of his earlier works.
Albert Lippincott is a fifty-seven-year-old postal carrier whose life seems to have sunk below pathos into...
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