Mary and the Giant - Softcover

Philip K Dick

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0586087834 ISBN 13: 9780586087831

Publisher: Paladin, 1989

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An early and daring novel from the Hugo Award-winning author about a young woman caught up in the glamor and dangers of 1950s California

Mary Anne Reynolds is young, vulnerable, and looking for love in Pacific Park, California. During her brief affairs with a middle-aged record shop owner and then a black blues singer, she seems to only succeed in offending the people living in the small-town of Pacific Park, both by her choice of lifestyle and choice of suitors. And while she stumbles through her various relationships and faces her overwhelming need to get out of town, Mary Anne shines as a "forerunner of the liberated sixties woman" (Library Journal) in this novel by the late prolific novelist, Philip K. Dick.

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'It is now becoming increasingly clear that Dick is one of the most compelling chroniclers of life and love in 1950s California that we have' Publishers Weekly

Synopsis:

The story of the loves and affairs of Mary Ann Reynolds in small-town California in the 1950s. A strong-willed but frightened woman of 20, she has difficulty giving and accepting love. The author profiles the men who care for her and describes her increasing self-awareness. Philip K.Dick is better known for his science fiction and is the author of "The Man whose Teeth were all exactly alike", "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" on which the film "Blade Runner" was based, "In Milton Lumky Territory" and "Humpty Dumpty in Oakland".

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