Confessions of a Crap Artist-Jack Isidore - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0960142827 ISBN 13: 9780960142828

Synopsis

Jack Isidore, a young man living with his sister and her family in California joins a UFO group that believes the world will end on April 23, 1959

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

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"A funny, horribly accurate portrait of a life in California in the Fifties." Rolling Stone

Jack Isidore doesn't see the world like most people. According to his brother-in-law Charlie, he s a crap artist, obsessed with his own bizarre theories and ideas, which he fanatically records in his many notebooks. He is so grossly unequipped for real life that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to rescue him from it. But while Fay and Charlie Hume put on a happy face for the world, they prove to be just as sealed off from reality, in thrall to obsessions that are slightly more acceptable than Jack's but a great deal uglier. Their constant fighting and betrayals threaten their own marriage and the relationships of everyone around them. When they bring Jack into their home, he finds himself in the middle of a maelstrom of suburban angst from which he might not be able to escape.

Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dick's most accomplished novels, and the only non science fiction novel published in his lifetime.

PHILIP K. DICK (1928 1982) wrote 121 short stories and 45 novels and is considered one of the most visionary authors of the twentieth century. His work is included in the Library of America and has been translated into more than twenty five languages. Eleven works have been adapted to film, including Blade Runner (based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly."

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0960142827
• ISBN 13: 9780960142828
• Binding: Paperback