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The Long Road of the Junkmailer
Patrick Holland
出版Univ. of Queensland Press, 2006
主題Fiction / GeneralFiction / Fantasy / GeneralFiction / Fantasy / ContemporaryFiction / Humorous / General
ISBN07022357099780702235702
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NzGKyiy8TW8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋A lonely junkmailer, his bag full of real estate leaflets, wanders the streets of a sleeping subtropical city. With adventure in his heart, his search for letterboxes takes on epic proportions throughout the night as dream and reality collide. It draws from the storytelling tradition of magical realism, with our central character on a quest to find a circus girl with whom he is smitten and to complete his delivery quota of junk mail. As we follow our young junkmailer on his bizarre journey, the reader is also taken on a journey of vivid imagination and literary playfulness. Accompanied by a host of bizarre companions – a girl who has forgotten how to cry, a Polish-Aboriginal clairvoyant, a mysterious ringmaster, and a tribe of watchful white tigers – the junkmailer is led on a quixotic journey through the night-time streets of a city desperately in need of redemption. Why the city needs to be saved is another question entirely.