The Cosmic Puppets - Brossura

Dick, Philip K.

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ISBN 10: 0006482864 ISBN 13: 9780006482864

Casa editrice: Voyager, 1998

Riassunto

One of Dick’s earlier works, The Cosmic Puppets is his only pure fantasy novel.

Millgate, Virginia – it should have been the sort of town where nothing ever changes...

As Ted Barton is driving through Baltimore, on vacation with his wife, he is seized with an irresistible urge to head into the Appalachian Mountains and visit the town where he was born – Millgate, Virginia.

But when Barton finds his way into the little valley he grew up in, he is in for a deep shock. The town called Millgate is there all right: but it is a town he has never seen before.

It is a town where Ted Barton had died of scarlet fever at the age of nine...

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Recensione:

‘The greatest American novelist of the second half of the 20th century’
Norman Spinrad

‘A great philosophical writer’
Independent

‘The most brilliant sci-fi mind on any planet’
Rolling Stone

L'autore:

Philip K Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. He attended college for a year at Berkeley. Apart from writing, his main interest was music. He won the Hugo Award for his classic novel of alternative history, The Man in the High Castle (1962). He was married five times and had three children. He died in March 1982.

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• Editore: Voyager
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0006482864
• ISBN 13: 9780006482864
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 144