Counter-Clock World - Brossura

Dick, Philip K.

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ISBN 10: 0375719334 ISBN 13: 9780375719332

Casa editrice: Vintage Books, 2002

Riassunto

After entering the Hobart Phase in whcih time moves in reverse, the world is turned upside down as the dead are coming back to life, including Anarch Peak, a charismatic religious leader with a fanatical following, whose resurrection could have awesome ramifications for the entire world. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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“Dick’s best books always describe a future that is both entirely recognizable and utterly unimaginable.” --The New York Times Book Review

“Dick is entertaining us about reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation. . . . We have our own homegrown Borges.” --Ursula K. LeGuin, The 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: 0375719334
• ISBN 13: 9780375719332
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 218