The Delivery (novel)

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 Delivery
LanguageEnglish
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
2021

Publication

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

Reception

According to literary review aggregator Book Marks, the novel received mostly favorable reviews.[2]

In a review published by The New York Times Book Review book review, Andy Newman praised the novel as "often exquisite".[3] However, Newman criticized Mendelsund's insertion of a narrator whose stories about his own life become longer as the novel continues.[3]

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."[4] 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.[5]

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


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