Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765316919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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Set in San Francisco in the late 1950s, this work is a tragicomedy of misunderstandings among used car dealers and real-estate agents: the small-time, struggling individuals for whom the author reserves his greatest sympathy.
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780586086704
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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"Al Miller is a sad case, someone who can't seem to lift himself up from his stagnant and disappointing life. He's a self-proclaimed nobody, a used car salesman with a lot full of junkers." "His elderly landlord, Jim Fergesson, has decided to retire because of a heart condition and has just cashed in on his property, which includes his garage, and, next to it, the lot that Al rents. This leaves Al wondering what his next step should be, and if he even cares." "Chris Harman is a record-company owner who has relied of Fergesson's to fix his Cadillac for many years. When he hears about Fergesson's sudden retirement fund, he tells him about a new realty development and urges him to invest in it. According to Harman, it's a surefire path to easy wealth. Fergusson is swayed. This is his chance to be a real businessman, a well-to-do, respected gentlemen, like Harman." "But Al is convinced that Harman is a crook out to fleece Fergesson. Even if he doesn't particularly like Fergesson, Al is not going to stand by and watch him get cheated. Only Al's not very good at this, either. He may not even be right."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782852081307
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Languages : fr
Pages : 253
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Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: J'ai Lu
ISBN: 2290157139
Category : Fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 205
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Oakland, 1960. Al Miller, vendeur de vieux tacots à peine rafistolés, voit sa situation professionnelle se dégrader brutalement le jour où Jim Fergesson, le patron du garage qui lui loue une partie de ses locaux, décide de prendre sa retraite et de vendre son affaire. Fergesson ne tarde pas à devenir la proie de Chris Harman, un agent immobilier qui entend le convaincre d’investir les économies d’une vie dans un programme résidentiel dans le comté de Marin. Malgré son ressentiment, Al ne laissera pas le vieux se faire arnaquer aussi facilement...
Author: Philip Kindred Dick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782290033876
Category : Psychological fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 286
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San Francisco dans les années 1950. Jim Fergusson, , patron d'un garage, décide de prendre sa retraite à la suite d'un défaillance cardiaque. Il compromet ainsi la situation de Al Miller à qui il loue une partie de son local. Al Miller vivote en vendant des voitures. Sa situation est précaire mais sa femme a de l'ambition pour deux... Aux prises avec ses contradictions, Al tente de les résoudre sans pour autant perdre son âme.
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1429952644
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
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The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike was written by Philip K. Dick in the winter and spring of 1960, in Point Reyes Station, California. In the sequence of Dick's work, The Man Whose Teeth was written immediately after Confessions of a Crap Artist; the next book Dick wrote was The Man in the High Castle, the Hugo Award–winning science fiction novel that ushered in the next stage of Dick's career. This novel, Dick said, is about Leo Runcible, "a brilliant, civicminded liberal Jew living in a rural WASP town in Marin County, California." Runcible, a real estate agent involved in a local battle with a neighbor, finds what look like Neanderthal bones and dreams of rising real estate prices because of the publicity. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765316967
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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In The Novels of Philip K. Dick, Kim Stanley Robinson says that "In Milton Lumky Territory . . . is probably the best of Dick's realist novels aside from Confessions of a Crap Artist," and calls it a "bitter indictment of the effects of capitalism." Dick, on the other hand, in his forward, says "This is actually a very funny book, and a good one, too." Milton Lumky territory is both an area of the western USA and a psychic terrain: the world and world-view of the traveling salesman. The story takes place in Boise, Idaho, with some extraordinary long-distance driving sequences in which our hero (young Bruce Stevens) drives from Boise to San Francisco, to Reno, to Pocatello, to Seattle, and back to Boise in search of a good deal on some wholesale typewriters. He falls under the spell of an attractive older woman, and of Milton Lumky, a middle-aged paper salesman whose territory is the Northwest. And then Bruce and the others slowly sink into the whirlpool of Bruce's immature personal obsessions and misperceptions. A compassionate and ironic portrayal of three characters enmeshed in a sticky web of everyday events, who have a basic failure to communicate, In Milton Lumky Territory stands out among Dick's early works.
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547572506
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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A disparate group of characters are brought together on a ravaged Earth and must contend with an underclass that's starting to ask too many questions.
Author: Jonathan Lethem
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312858780
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Twenty-first-century private detective Conrad Metcalf has a dead doctor on his hands, a monkey on his back, and a kangaroo in his waiting room in a first novel with a sharp-edged, funny vision of the future.
Author: Philip K Dick
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 057513285X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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One of Dick's earliest books but his last to be published, this is the story of one man's descent into depression and madness - and his escape to the other side Stuart Hadley is a young radio electronics salesman in early 1950s Oakland, California. He has what many would consider the ideal life. He has a nice house, a pretty wife, a decent job with prospects for advancement - but he still feels unfulfilled. Something is missing from his life. Hadley is also an angry young man - an artist, a dreamer, a screw-up. He tries to fill his void first with drinking, then sex, and then with religious fanaticism, but nothing seems to be working and it is driving him crazy. He reacts to the love of his wife and the kindness of his employer with anxiety and fear. Is there anything that can bring him back to the world? Winner of both the HUGO and JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARDs for BEST NOVEL, Philip K. Dick is widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day. The object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, he has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.
