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Author | Peter Mendelsund |
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Language | English |
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.
The cover of the hardcover edition was designed by Alex Merto. [1]
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]