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Introducing "The Delivery Man," a Novel by Joe McGinniss Jr.
Publish Date : 1/15/2008 4:44:00 AM Source : Entertainment News Onlypunjab.com
Joe McGinniss Jr.'s debut The Delivery Man (Black Cat, a paperback original imprint of Grove/Atlantic; $14; ISBN: 978-0-8021-7042-2; January 15, 2008), a chilling, fast-paced, and razor-sharp rendering of the MySpace generation, takes the reader inside the surreal excess of Las Vegas.
The novel has already captured the attention of Hollywood, with film rights sold to Whitsitt Hill Entertainment's Ryan Howe and Thom Mount,
producer of such modern classics as The Deer Hunter, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and Cruel Intentions. In 'The Delivery Man,', ultra-sophisticated kids grow up fast and burn out early. It is a powerful love story about two friends, now in their mid-twenties, groping toward adulthood and making all the wrong choices. Chase thought he had escaped Las Vegas, finding meaningful work and true love in New York City, but when he returns home he finds himself sucked into the amoral excess Vegas offers. When his childhood friend, Michele, a beautiful Salvadoran immigrant with whom he shares a tragic past, draws him into the lucrative but dangerous world of a teenage call-girl service, the two soon face 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 a scathing indictment of a society whose young people exhibit an unnerving sense of entitlement to wealth and attention. In an age of instant everything by way of Myspace, text messaging and Craigslist, gratification, or the means to it, is just a keystroke away.
About Joe McGinniss Jr.: Joe McGinniss Jr. graduated from Swarthmore College and lives in Washington, DC. The Delivery Man is his first book and rights have thus far been sold in the UK, Spain, Italy and Denmark. |
Bollywood marks its presence in Polish market
Publish Date : 1/26/2005 10:50:00 AM
Bollywood made its presence in the Polish market when "Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham" was released here, with posters of Kajol and Kareena Kapoor visible all over the capital.
GreenCine and DivXNetworks Announce Online Film Festival
Publish Date : 1/25/2005 10:31:00 AM
GreenCine LLC (www.greencine.com), the preeminent DVD Rent-by-Mail and Video-on-Demand company with an unsurpassed collection of independent, international ....
'Page 3' will grow on audiences, says Bhandarkar
Publish Date : 1/23/2005 7:35:00 PM
Filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar is wary about predicting the opening response for his "Page 3" but says that he expects the film to grow on audiences as the days progress.
R&B star wins court album battle
Publish Date : 12/23/2004 4:26:00 PM
R&B singer Mark Morrison has been given the green light to release a new album after winning a court battle with footballer Kevin Campbell.
Funeral for opera singer Tebaldi
Publish Date : 12/23/2004 4:04:00 PM
The funeral of Italian soprano Renata Tebaldi, one of the 20th Century's greatest opera stars, has taken place in her home town of San Marino.
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