In Milton Lumky Territory (GOLLANCZ S.F.) - Softcover

Dick, Philip K

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0575074655 ISBN 13: 9780575074651

Publisher: Gollancz, 2005

Synopsis

Bruce Stevens is a young buyer for a big discount house when he meets the recently divorced Susan Faine. She suggests that he might like to manage her ailing typewriter store and he leaps at the suggestion. Then he realizes that Susan was his teacher when he was in fifth grade. In spite of that, they are married within days. And then the odd compulsions and instabilities start to interfere with their plans. Milton Lumky, the paper salesman in whose area they live, is uneasy about their future ...

About this title

Review:

"A kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet."
--"The New York Times
""Remarkable. . .echoes of Dick's contemporaries such as Ralph Ellison, Richard Yates, Rod Serling, Raymond Chandler and early Kurt Vonnegut Jr. resonate. . . . Dick fans will be in rapture."
--"Publishers Weekly" [boxed review] on "Voices from the Street"

Praise for "In Milton Lumky Territory":
"Beautifully drawn and poignantly persuasive."
--"New York"" Magazine
""It's easy to sense . . . Dick's unmistakable concern for his poor, clumsy characters, who try their best to understand the implications of their actions, who never mean to hurt anyone, even when they are engaged in deceit, and who live their lives as pawns in worlds they never made. Rather than ridiculing or even patronizing these characters, Dick seems to envy them. . . ."
--"Locus"

Praise for "In Milton Lumky Territory":
"Beautifully drawn and poignantly persuasive."
--"New York"" Magazine
""It's easy to sense . . . Dick's unmistakable concern for his poor, clumsy characters, who try their best to understand the implications of their actions, who never mean to hurt anyone, even when they are engaged in deceit, and who live their lives as pawns in worlds they never made.  Rather than ridiculing or even patronizing these characters, Dick seems to envy them. . . ."
--"Locus "

Praise for "In Milton Lumky Territory"

"Beautifully drawn and poignantly persuasive."
--"New York"" Magazine

""It's easy to sense . . . Dick's unmistakable concern for his poor, clumsy characters, who try their best to understand the implications of their actions, who never mean to hurt anyone, even when they are engaged in deceit, and who live their lives as pawns in worlds they never made. Rather than ridiculing or even patronizing these characters, Dick seems to envy them. . . ."
--"Locus "

"Beautifully drawn and poignantly persuasive."
--"New York"" Magazine
""It's easy to sense . . . Dick's unmistakable concern for his poor, clumsy characters, who try their best to understand the implications of their actions, who never mean to hurt anyone, even when they are engaged in deceit, and who live their lives as pawns in worlds they never made. Rather than ridiculing or even patronizing these characters, Dick seems to envy them. . . ."
--"Locus "

Beautifully drawn and poignantly persuasive. "New York Magazine"

It's easy to sense . . . Dick's unmistakable concern for his poor, clumsy characters, who try their best to understand the implications of their actions, who never mean to hurt anyone, even when they are engaged in deceit, and who live their lives as pawns in worlds they never made. Rather than ridiculing or even patronizing these characters, Dick seems to envy them. . . . "Locus""

"Beautifully drawn and poignantly persuasive." --New York Magazine

"It's easy to sense . . . Dick's unmistakable concern for his poor, clumsy characters, who try their best to understand the implications of their actions, who never mean to hurt anyone, even when they are engaged in deceit, and who live their lives as pawns in worlds they never made. Rather than ridiculing or even patronizing these characters, Dick seems to envy them. . . ." --Locus

Book Description:

'An elusive and incomparable artist' Ursula K. Le Guin

About this edition

• Publisher: Gollancz
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0575074655
• ISBN 13: 9780575074651
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224