Divine Invasions: Life of Philip K. Dick - Brossura

Sutin, Lawrence

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ISBN 10: 058609086X ISBN 13: 9780586090862

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 1994

Riassunto

This is a biography of the novelist, Philip K. Dick, who was born into a repressed and unhappy family. From early childhood he showed extraordinary mental aptitude offset by emotional instability. He began writing stories for pulp magazines at an early age, and through most of his life turned out stories and novels at speed to support himself as an author. This book shows a generous but insecure man, troubled by the turbulence of his times and by his own difficult marriages, and driven to attempted suicide and near-insanity by his ceaseless quest to find meaning in the universe.

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'Divine Invasions' is the definitive account of the amazing life and work of the msot original and provocative science fiction writer this century. Although he was largely ignored in his own country until he achieved fame as the author of 'Blade Runner', Philip K. Dick was always widely admired in Europe. Since his death, both his science fiction and his mainstream writings have achieved critical acclaim the world over.

“My God, my life is exactly like the plot of any ten of my novels or stories ... I’m a protagonist from one of PKD’s books!”
PHILIP K. DICK

“Dick was perhaps the first real genius to have worked in the science-fictional model since the days of Stapledon, a hybrid of Dickens and Dostoevsky, possessed of the comic delights and tragic depths of both”
BRIAN ALDISS

“I see Dick as a major 21st century writer, an influential ‘fictional philosopher’ of the quantum age. 'Divine Invasions' is a haunting, unforgettable, gripping narrative”
TIMOTHY LEARY

“Sutin pieces together Dick’s life story from Dick’s own letters and journals, and from interviews with friends, lovers and wives. The picture he paints of this crazy, disturbed, confused, generous, remarkable man is both surreal and solidly real. This biography makes sense, at last, of the contradictions in PKD’s fiction”
NEW SCIENTIST

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 058609086X
• ISBN 13: 9780586090862
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272