Clans of the Alphane Moon - Brossura

Dick, Philip K.

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ISBN 10: 0375719288 ISBN 13: 9780375719288

Casa editrice: Vintage Books, 2002

Riassunto

When the Alphane moon becomes an insane asylum, its inmates, left alone, form clans based on their respective psychoses, but when Earth psychologist Mary Rittersdorf attempts to rehospitalize these lunatics, they retaliate against her invasion of their privacy. Reprint.

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"Philip K. Dick is awe inspiring." --The Washington Post

“Dick is entertaining us about reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation. . . . We have our own homegrown Borges.” —Ursula K. LeGuin, New Republic

L'autore:

Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. He briefly attended the University of California, but dropped out before completing any classes. In 1952, he began writing professionally and proceeded to write numerous novels and short-story collections. He won the Hugo Award for the best novel in 1962 for The Man in the High Castle and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year in 1974 for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Philip K. Dick died on March 2, 1982, in Santa Ana, California, of heart failure following a stroke.

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• Editore: Vintage Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375719288
• ISBN 13: 9780375719288
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 251