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Fri, February 01, 2008 02:02:54 PMFrom:
City Lights Books
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City Lights Events | Joe McGinniss, Jr.
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City Lights Bookstore
All events are free and open to the public.
Unless otherwise noted, all events take place at
City Lights Bookstore
261 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94133
415-362-8193
Map & Directions
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008, 7 pm
reading from
The Delivery Man
published by Black Cat (an imprint of Grove Atlantic)
The Delivery Man is an exhilarating debut—a fast, frightening, and eye-opening portrait of today’s lost 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 a powerful indictment of a society in which personal responsibility has been abandoned, lust is increasingly mistaken for love, and innocence is an anachronism.
“[A] flashy, fast-moving debut . . . McGinniss successfully gambles with the notion that whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” — Publishers Weekly
“McGinniss never wavers from his ruthless portrayal of the morally bankrupt . . . this atmospheric page-turner gains increasing depth as it barrels toward a gut-wrenching conclusion.” — Booklist
“A gripping literary thriller and an auspicious debut.” —George Pelecanos
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