Search for Philip K. Dick, 1928-1982: A Memoir and Biography of the Science Fiction Writer [Hardcover]

Anne R. Dick (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0773491376 | ISBN-13: 978-0773491373 | Publication Date: January 1995

A biography of the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick by his wife Anne, originally published in the mid-1980s. It portrays the writer as both person and artist, giving insights into his work habits as well as the sources and inspirations of many of his stories.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 374 pages
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr (January 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0773491376
• ISBN-13: 978-0773491373
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,552,561 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting exercise in exorcising internal dilemma of PKD!, September 8, 1997

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This review is from: Search for Philip K. Dick, 1928-1982: A Memoir and Biography of the Science Fiction Writer (Hardcover)

While I have read many books relating to Philip K. Dick, this is the first from somebody who lived with him day to day that I have read. Anne Dick, while making many interesting observations does not really tell me anything that makes me understand exactly who PKD is/was.

She spends quite a bit of time looking through her eyes at how she could have been, should have been, and how PKD treated her and his family. It is though she is working at providing her own cathartic needs through the book. The descriptions of living conditions, friendships, relationships, while all interesting, leave me wanting something more. I'm not quite sure what, and possible Anne was not as well. This book was written many years ago and then revised for this publication. It shows. Sometimes the book seems to ebb and flow with the older stuff being broken by newer material.

Don't know if this would be the best introduction to PKD the man and the writer, not at almost $100.00. But, for a true "Dickhead" as we who enjoy PKD and his works are called, this gives us another piece to the enigmatic puzzle that is known as Philip K. Dick