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Vincent McCaffrey: IMG A Practical Matter

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It was in a letter of 1897, about his cousin James Ross Clemens, that Mark Twain famously noted that "the report of my death was an exaggeration." He... Continue »
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    Hound: A Mystery

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Ubik

by Philip K. Dick

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ISBN13: 9780679736646
ISBN10: 0679736646
Condition: Standard
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Philip K. Dick's searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation is a tour de force of panoramic menace and unfettered slapstick, in which the departed give business advice, shop for their next incarnation, and run the continual risk of dying yet again.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Life turns upside-down for Joe Chip and 11 of his coworkers when they escape the aftermath of a bomb blast with the corpse of their employer. Various temporal and paranormal phenomena begin manifesting themselves, the cause of which is a mystery - and their lives may depend on solving that mystery.

Ubik is rather confusing, but in this case, to say that is actually to pay it a compliment. It's one of Dick's best novels, a highly enjoyable tale of distorted reality and bizarre metaphysics, by the end of which, Dick clears up the confusion and brings the story to a satisfying conclusion - until, that is, he throws another curveball in the final chapter.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780679736646
Editor:
Dick, Philip K.
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Author:
Dick, Philip K.
Location:
New York
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Science Fiction - General
Subject:
Science fiction
Subject:
Death
Subject:
Explosions
Subject:
Businessmen
Subject:
Humorous fiction
Subject:
Death -- Fiction.
Subject:
Didactic fiction
Subject:
Des Moines
Copyright:
1969
Edition Description:
1st Vintage Books ed.
Publication Date:
December 1991
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
804x515x61 46
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