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Steve Reeves, the protagonist of Stephan Jarmaillo's first novel, Going Postal, is living proof that a college degree doesn't get you that far anymore. The first and only member of his family to graduate from college, Steve has risen no higher on the ladder to success than working at a bagel shop, a job he's just lost. Losing a job is, for Steve, demoralizing, even more so since his girlfriend has exited from his life at the same time. What's the unemployed son of a San Diego mailman to do? As the title suggests, Steve bears a grudging admiration for a subset of his father's colleagues, those frustrated and overworked postal workers who finally snap and start shooting; he even starts carrying a gun that his father gave him. But by novel's end Steve has a new girl, a new job, and a measure of contentment that even a Colt .45 can't supply. How he makes it all happen without Going Postal is pure entertainment.
The New York Times Book Review, Katherine Alberg
This sounds like a novelist's gimmick, and it is. On the other hand, in sketching out his hero Jaramillo does manage to capture the mood and voice of a certain distinctive type of apprentice grown-up.... It is when Jaramillo stays simple, abandoning writing school gimmicks, that he finds the essence of his protagonist.
Going Postal
Going Postal,Stephan Jaramillo,Berkley Publishing Group,0425157687,Classics,Fiction,Fiction - General,Humorous,Humorous stories,San Francisco (Calif.),Young men
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