Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of The 1960s (LOA #173) : The Man in the High Castle

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Condition
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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“Stated 1st printing as pictured. Withdrawn library copy with typical markings/stampings.”
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No
Type
Novel
Signed
No
Narrative Type
Fiction
Features
Dust Jacket, Ex-Library
Original Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Inscribed
No
Edition
First Edition
Vintage
No
ISBN
9781598530094
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Library of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1598530097
ISBN-13
9781598530094
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57213720

Product Key Features

Book Title
Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of The 1960s (LOA #173) : The Man in the High Castle / the Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Do AndroidsDream of Electric Sheep? / Ubik
Number of Pages
900 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Alternative History
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Fiction
Author
Philip K. Dick
Book Series
Library of America Philip K. Dick Edition Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
19 Oz
Item Length
8.1 in
Item Width
5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-048776
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Series Volume Number
1
Synopsis
This Library of America volume brings together four of Dick's most original, mesmerizing, and surprising novels: "The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?," and "Ubik.", Known in his lifetime primarily to readers of science fiction, Philip K. Dick is now seen as a uniquely visionary figure, a writer who, in editor Jonathan Lethem's words, "wielded a sardonic yet heartbroken acuity about the plight of being alive in the twentieth century, one that makes him a lonely hero to the readers who cherish him." This Library of America volume brings together four of Dick's most original novels. The Man in the High Castle (1962), which won the Hugo Award, describes an alternate world in which Japan and Germany have won World War II and America is divided into separate occupation zones. The dizzying The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) posits a future in which competing hallucinogens proffer different brands of virtual reality, and an interplanetary drug tycoon can transform himself into a godlike figure transcending even physical death. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), about a bounty hunter in search of escaped androids in a postapocalyptic society where status is measured by the possession of live animals and religious life is focused on a television personality, was the basis for the movie Blade Runner. Ubik (1969), with its future world of psychic espionage agents and cryonically frozen patients inhabiting an illusory "half-life," pursues Dick's theme of simulated realities and false perceptions to ever more disturbing conclusions, as time collapses on itself and characters stranded in past eras search desperately for the elusive, constantly shape-shifting panacea Ubik. As with most of Dick's novels, no plot summary can suggest the mesmerizing and constantly surprising texture of these astonishing books. Posing the questions "What is human?" and "What is real?" in a multitude of fascinating ways, Dick produced works--fantastic and weird, yet developed with precise logic, marked by wild humor and soaring flights of religious speculation--that are startlingly prescient imaginative anticipations of twenty-first-century quandaries. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
LC Classification Number
PS3554.I3A6 2007

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