Reviews
"A dead-of-night story surehandedly told in a pared-down, teeth-bared style reminiscent of Joan Didion." Janet Fitch, author ofWhite Oleander "[A] brisk, bleak debut novel…McGinniss manages to whip the yearning and confusion of the woefully inarticulate Chase into dramatic, even gripping fare….The Delivery Manoffers unflinching glimpses at mores in free fall….Searing…Memorable…Not for the faint of heart." Ed Park,The New York Times Book Review "McGinniss offers a fresh take on the seamy side of Vegas by focusing on the wasted lives of burned-out teens hooked on drugs and money. EvenCSIdoesn't dig this deep." -Carol Memmott,USA Today "It's sex, drugs, and a slew of lost souls in this engrossing story of a twenty-five-year-old known only as Chase. An out-of-luck wannabe artist, he retreats to his hometown-that being Vegas, a downward spiral ensues, thanks to madams and more….CouldThe Delivery Manbe this decade'sLess Than Zero?" Marie Claire "Grim, convincing, and compelling…McGinniss charts [his characters'] aimlessness with insight and dexterity. Dare I say it?The Delivery Manreally delivers." Art Taylor,The Washington Post "An insider's guide to the dark underbelly of twenty-first-century Las Vegas, brimming with brand names, hard bodies, hard drugs, and heavy doses of sex and violence. If that's all you're looking for,The Delivery Manwon't disappoint….But once you finish it, you won't be able to get it out of your mind….The Delivery Manis that rare first novel that could well become a classic." Peter Bloch,Penthouse "The Delivery Manis balls-out scary….It's a world where everyone's too young and too high, and no one expects to live 'til thirty….A fast-paced read [that] packs a wallop." Courtney Ferguson,Portland Mercury, Powerful and compelling, a novel of nonstop tension in a landscape so modern, so up to the minute, that you can set your watch by it. And while it reminds me of Hunter Thompson and Robert Stone, it is also a book by a young writer whose talent is at once fierce and entirely new. Fresh, haunting, the kind of book that keeps you up at night to turn the pages., This is a thrilling debut--a novel about youth wasting itself knowingly against the laid-back, glossy, trademark amorality of Las Vegas, told in a voice that sounds like that of a slightly older, hipper Holden Caulfield, coming of age in a place that has no past or future--only the cool, gleaming, terrifying present. Sexy, touching, always shrewdly observed, and with a killer ending, The Delivery Man Is the Less Than Zero of the early 2000s--and the first step in what I am sure will be a remarkable career., "A dead-of-night story surehandedly told in a pared-down, teeth-bared style reminiscent of Joan Didion." -Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander "[A] brisk, bleak debut novel...McGinniss manages to whip the yearning and confusion of the woefully inarticulate Chase into dramatic, even gripping fare.... The Delivery Man offers unflinching glimpses at mores in free fall....Searing...Memorable...Not for the faint of heart." -Ed Park, The New York Times Book Review "McGinniss offers a fresh take on the seamy side of Vegas by focusing on the wasted lives of burned-out teens hooked on drugs and money. Even CSI doesn't dig this deep." --Carol Memmott, USA Today "It's sex, drugs, and a slew of lost souls in this engrossing story of a twenty-five-year-old known only as Chase. An out-of-luck wannabe artist, he retreats to his hometown--that being Vegas, a downward spiral ensues, thanks to madams and more....Could The Delivery Man be this decade's Less Than Zero ?" - Marie Claire "Grim, convincing, and compelling...McGinniss charts [his characters'] aimlessness with insight and dexterity. Dare I say it? The Delivery Man really delivers." -Art Taylor, The Washington Post "An insider's guide to the dark underbelly of twenty-first-century Las Vegas, brimming with brand names, hard bodies, hard drugs, and heavy doses of sex and violence. If that's all you're looking for, The Delivery Man won't disappoint....But once you finish it, you won't be able to get it out of your mind.... The Delivery Man is that rare first novel that could well become a classic." -Peter Bloch, Penthouse " The Delivery Man is balls-out scary....It's a world where everyone's too young and too high, and no one expects to live ‘til thirty....A fast-paced read [that] packs a wallop." -Courtney Ferguson, Portland Mercury, Poor Chase: he feels like God's Lonely Man, all longing and disillusionment, and no one disappoints him more than he disappoints himself. He's part of a longstanding American tradition of hard guys with soft centers, guys with an exquisitely calibrated sense of their own self-degradation, like one of Bret Easton Ellis's heroes refracted through Raymond Chandler. The Delivery Man is arresting on the way, in the face of our undoing, we're inadequate but still culpable, and idealistic but still paralyzed.
