Going Postal

Going Postal is just absolutely classic Pratchett. In a refreshing and welcome return to form, he both satirizes and praises not only the postal service, but the whole concept of mail and communication. His notion that information has a life of its own and can affect the world could have (and probably did) come straight from modern Quantum physics.

Pratchett has been compared to many people...Swift, Twain, Voltaire...but I think it's time to stop doing that, and time to start comparing others to him. The only problem is, there is no other living writer who compares. He's just that good.

Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into ... a government job?

By all rights, Moist should be meeting his maker rather than being offered a position as Postmaster by Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may prove an impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken-down post office. Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him. Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, greedy Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty piratical headman. But if the bold and undoable are what's called for, Moist's the man for the job -- to move the mail, continue breathing, get the girl, and specially deliver that invaluable commodity that every being, human or otherwise, requires: hope.

Terry Pratchett is one of the worlds most popular authors. His acclaimed novels have sold more than 75 million copies worldwide. In January 2009, Queen Elizabeth II appointed Pratchett a Knight Bachelor in recognition of his services to literature. Sir Terry lives in England.

Distributor: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date: 09-27-2005
Pages: 416
Measurements: 6.75in X 4.1875in X 1.04in X 7.28oz