"A PHANTASMAGORIA of American paranoia and self-loathing in the person of a deranged bur some-how good-hearted middle-aged mail carrier in steep decline, the book hums with a kind of chipper angst," writes Jonathan Lethem in the "Los Angeles Times Book Review. Mailman tells the blackly comic story of Albert Lippincott. Albert is Nestor, New York's mailman extraordinaire--aggressively cheerful, obsessively efficient. But he also has a few things to hide: his habit of reading other people's mail, a nervous breakdown, and a sexually ambiguous entanglement with his sister. Already optioned to the movies, this astonishing and kinetically charged tale was one of the most exuberantly praised novels of 2003.

"A phantasmagoria of American paranoia and self-loathing in the person of a deranged but somehow goodhearted middle-aged mail carrier in steep decline, the book hums with a kind of chipper angst."--Jonathan Lethem, "Los Angeles Times Book Review."