![]() ![]() Shortly after, Ed begins receiving playing cards scrawled with names, addresses, or other vague clues, in the mail. ![]() I Am the Messenger follows Ed, an unremarkable, no-ambition, 19-year-old Lost Boy and cab driver who stumbles onto-and accidentally thwarts-a bank robbery. It’s no wonder it took Zusak until 2018 to follow up that act with the newly released Bridge of Clay. But since the new novel wasn’t out yet when I loaded up on Kindle books in the fall, I went back a bit to Zusak’s I Am the Messenger, published three years before The Book Thief. Such is the case for Markus Zusak, Australian YA writer, whose 2005 novel The Book Thiefrightfully won a slew of literary awards, was one of the books that sparked adult interest in novels ostensibly aimed at teens, and was even got the de-rigeuer forgettable Hollywood treatment in 2015. ![]() Though you’re forever lauded for and associated with that work, everything else you do is also compared to it in perpetuity, and generally found lacking. On some level, it must suck to create a work of great innovation or genius. ![]()
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