From USA Today Bestselling author L.A. Detwiler comes a dark domestic thriller that will hook you from the first page. Evette Harding's world of maternal bliss is perfect except for one thing: **there's something wrong with her husband.** John is a lawyer and loving husband by day. However, ever s
The Delivery Man
โ Scribed by McGinniss, Joe Jr
- Publisher
- Grove Atlantic; Black Cat, Distributed by Publishers Group West
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 136 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York, Berkeley, Calif., Las Vegas (Nev.), Nevada--Las Vegas.
- ISBN
- 1555848265
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โฆ Synopsis
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...
โฆ Subjects
Nevada -- Las Vegas
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