The Delivery (novel)

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The Delivery
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Author Peter Mendelsund
LanguageEnglish
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
2021

The Delivery is a 2021 novel by American writer Peter Mendelsund. The novel follows an immigrant to an unnamed country who works as a bicycle messenger making deliveries.

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Publication

The cover of the hardcover edition was designed by Alex Merto. [1]

Reception

In a review published by The New York Times Book Review book review, Andy Newman praised the novel as "often exquisite". [2] However, Newman criticized Mendelsund's insertion of a narrator whose stories about his own life become longer as the novel continues. [2]

In a review of The Delivery and Fuccboi by Sean Thor Conroe published by The Cleveland Review of Books , Preston DeGarmo criticized the book's reliance on crots or "minigraphs." [3] In a positive review published by the Los Angeles Review of Books , Alessandro Tersigni praised the form of the novel and the "design" of the book's prose. [4]

References

  1. Bourton, Lucy (April 13, 2022). "Alex Merto combines wit and considered typography in his book cover designs". www.itsnicethat.com. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
  2. 1 2 Newman, Andy (February 9, 2021). "Numbers, Speed, Mystery: The World of the Delivery Worker". The New York Times. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
  3. DeGarmo, Preston (February 28, 2023). "It's Not Delivery: Against Frictionless Fiction". Cleveland Review of Books. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
  4. Tersigni, Alessandro (February 11, 2021). "Less Is Magic in Peter Mendelsund's "The Delivery"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved March 6, 2023.