Author: DICK, PHILIP K.
Title: Voices from the Street
Description: New York: Tor Books, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0765316927. Light edge wear to dust jacket, some creing top back edge. ; A bright, solid book, DJ is crisp and clean, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.29 X 6.22 X 1.10 inches; 301 pages; "Stuart Hadley is a young radio electronics salesman in early 1950s Oakland, California. He has what many would consider the ideal life; 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 an angry young man--an artist, a dreamer, a screw-up. He tries to fill his void first with drinking, and 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.One of the earliest books that Dick ever wrote, and the only novel that has never been published, Voices from the Street is the story of Hadley's descent into depression and madness, and out the other side.Most known in his lifetime as a science fiction writer, Philip K. Dick is growing in reputation as an American writer whose powerful vision is an ironic reflection of the present. This novel completes the publication of his canon.". Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: 0765316927 Fiction FICTION
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Title: Voices from the Street
Description: New York: Tor Books, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0765316927. Light edge wear to dust jacket, some creing top back edge. ; A bright, solid book, DJ is crisp and clean, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.29 X 6.22 X 1.10 inches; 301 pages; "Stuart Hadley is a young radio electronics salesman in early 1950s Oakland, California. He has what many would consider the ideal life; 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 an angry young man--an artist, a dreamer, a screw-up. He tries to fill his void first with drinking, and 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.One of the earliest books that Dick ever wrote, and the only novel that has never been published, Voices from the Street is the story of Hadley's descent into depression and madness, and out the other side.Most known in his lifetime as a science fiction writer, Philip K. Dick is growing in reputation as an American writer whose powerful vision is an ironic reflection of the present. This novel completes the publication of his canon.". Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: 0765316927 Fiction FICTION
Price: US$ 16.50 Seller: Ainsworth Books
- Book number: 17888
- Book number: 17888
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