I Am Alive and You are Dead: A Journey Inside the Mind of Philip K. Dick - Brossura

Carrère, Emmanuel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0747579717 ISBN 13: 9780747579717

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006

Riassunto

This is an unforgettable biography of the visionary grand master of science fiction, Philip K. Dick. Emmanuel Carrere follows Dick's strange odyssey from his traumatic beginnings in 1928, when his twin sister died in infancy, to his lonely end in 1982, beset by mystical visions of swirling pink light, three-eyed invaders and messages from the Roman Empire. Drawing on interviews and both published and unpublished sources, Carrere traces Dick's multiple marriages, paranoid fantasies and dizzying encounters with the drug culture of California. As disturbing and engrossing as any novel by Philip K. Dick himself, Carrere's unconventional study interweaves life and art to reveal the maddening genius whose writing foresaw - from cloning to reality TV - a world that looks ever more like one of his inventions.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0747579717
• ISBN 13: 9780747579717
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 334