Humpty Dumpty In Oakland

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765316919
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humpty Dumpty in Oakland written by Philip K. Dick and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in San Francisco in the late 1950s, this work is a tragicomedy of misunderstandings among used car dealers and real-estate agents: the small-time, struggling individuals for whom the author reserves his greatest sympathy.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780586086704
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humpty Dumpty in Oakland written by Philip K. Dick and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Al Miller is a sad case, someone who can't seem to lift himself up from his stagnant and disappointing life. He's a self-proclaimed nobody, a used car salesman with a lot full of junkers." "His elderly landlord, Jim Fergesson, has decided to retire because of a heart condition and has just cashed in on his property, which includes his garage, and, next to it, the lot that Al rents. This leaves Al wondering what his next step should be, and if he even cares." "Chris Harman is a record-company owner who has relied of Fergesson's to fix his Cadillac for many years. When he hears about Fergesson's sudden retirement fund, he tells him about a new realty development and urges him to invest in it. According to Harman, it's a surefire path to easy wealth. Fergusson is swayed. This is his chance to be a real businessman, a well-to-do, respected gentlemen, like Harman." "But Al is convinced that Harman is a crook out to fleece Fergesson. Even if he doesn't particularly like Fergesson, Al is not going to stand by and watch him get cheated. Only Al's not very good at this, either. He may not even be right."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782852081307
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humpty Dumpty à Oakland written by Philip K. Dick and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : J'ai Lu
ISBN 13 : 2290157139
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humpty Dumpty à Oakland written by Philip K. Dick and published by J'ai Lu. This book was released on 2017-07-03T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oakland, 1960. Al Miller, vendeur de vieux tacots à peine rafistolés, voit sa situation professionnelle se dégrader brutalement le jour où Jim Fergesson, le patron du garage qui lui loue une partie de ses locaux, décide de prendre sa retraite et de vendre son affaire. Fergesson ne tarde pas à devenir la proie de Chris Harman, un agent immobilier qui entend le convaincre d’investir les économies d’une vie dans un programme résidentiel dans le comté de Marin. Malgré son ressentiment, Al ne laissera pas le vieux se faire arnaquer aussi facilement...

Author : Philip Kindred Dick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782290033876
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humpty Dumpty à Oakland written by Philip Kindred Dick and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco dans les années 1950. Jim Fergusson, , patron d'un garage, décide de prendre sa retraite à la suite d'un défaillance cardiaque. Il compromet ainsi la situation de Al Miller à qui il loue une partie de son local. Al Miller vivote en vendant des voitures. Sa situation est précaire mais sa femme a de l'ambition pour deux... Aux prises avec ses contradictions, Al tente de les résoudre sans pour autant perdre son âme.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1429952644
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike written by Philip K. Dick and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike was written by Philip K. Dick in the winter and spring of 1960, in Point Reyes Station, California. In the sequence of Dick's work, The Man Whose Teeth was written immediately after Confessions of a Crap Artist; the next book Dick wrote was The Man in the High Castle, the Hugo Award–winning science fiction novel that ushered in the next stage of Dick's career. This novel, Dick said, is about Leo Runcible, "a brilliant, civicminded liberal Jew living in a rural WASP town in Marin County, California." Runcible, a real estate agent involved in a local battle with a neighbor, finds what look like Neanderthal bones and dreams of rising real estate prices because of the publicity. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547572506
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Simulacra written by Philip K. Dick and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disparate group of characters are brought together on a ravaged Earth and must contend with an underclass that's starting to ask too many questions.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765316967
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Milton Lumky Territory written by Philip K. Dick and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Novels of Philip K. Dick, Kim Stanley Robinson says that "In Milton Lumky Territory . . . is probably the best of Dick's realist novels aside from Confessions of a Crap Artist," and calls it a "bitter indictment of the effects of capitalism." Dick, on the other hand, in his forward, says "This is actually a very funny book, and a good one, too." Milton Lumky territory is both an area of the western USA and a psychic terrain: the world and world-view of the traveling salesman. The story takes place in Boise, Idaho, with some extraordinary long-distance driving sequences in which our hero (young Bruce Stevens) drives from Boise to San Francisco, to Reno, to Pocatello, to Seattle, and back to Boise in search of a good deal on some wholesale typewriters. He falls under the spell of an attractive older woman, and of Milton Lumky, a middle-aged paper salesman whose territory is the Northwest. And then Bruce and the others slowly sink into the whirlpool of Bruce's immature personal obsessions and misperceptions. A compassionate and ironic portrayal of three characters enmeshed in a sticky web of everyday events, who have a basic failure to communicate, In Milton Lumky Territory stands out among Dick's early works.

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312858780
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gun, With Occasional Music written by Jonathan Lethem and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-01-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-first-century private detective Conrad Metcalf has a dead doctor on his hands, a monkey on his back, and a kangaroo in his waiting room in a first novel with a sharp-edged, funny vision of the future.

Author : Philip K Dick
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473206723
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary and the Giant written by Philip K Dick and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Anne Reynolds is a young and vulnerable woman, determined to make her own way in the world. But Pacific Park, California, in the 1950s is not really the place for Mary. Her relationship with a black singer offends against the small town's views on sexual mores and exposes its bigoted views on race.