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 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: J'ai Lu ISBN: 2290157139 Category : Fiction Languages : fr Pages : 219
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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 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: Hachette UK ISBN: 057513240X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 309
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Small town America tears itself apart in this realist novel from one of the greats of science fiction Leo Runcible - of Runcible Realty - is too excitable and too pushy. His wife drinks too much. He may be a man of principle, but Liberal Jewish Leo is an outsider in the lilywhite Carquinez, Marin County. When he gets into a pointless argument with a customer over his neighbour Walt Dombrosio's house guests, the resulting ramifications follow a bizarre logic of cause and effect to lead in entirely unexpected directions ... And can Leo really have found the skull of a Neanderthal man in middle America? THE MAN WHOSE TEETH WERE ALL EXACTLY ALIKE is a dazzling novel by a writer famous for his power to surprise and delight.
Author: Philip K Dick Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 057513304X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 114
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Nick and his family are forced to leave Earth in order for him to keep his cat, Horace - because all pets are now banned, as they use up badly needed resources. They settle on Plowman's Planet, where they discover a variety of strange and wonderful alien lifeforms. But not all of these weird lifeforms are benevolent - and the family is involved in a series of increasingly dangerous mishaps. Can Horace and Nick manage to outwit the Wub, the Werjes, the Trobes - and the most dangerous of all, the Glimmung? Philip K. Dick's only children's book, first published after his death, brings together many of his most famous alien creations in one gently humorous tale.
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.
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