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Voices From the Street Kindle Edition

by Philip K. Dick (Author)

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Stuart Hadley is a young radio electronics salesman in early 1950s Oakland, California. He has what many would consider the ideal life; a nice house, a pretty wife, a decent job with prospects for advancement, but he still feels unfulfilled; something is missing from his life. Hadley is an angry young man—an artist, a dreamer, a screw-up. He tries to fill his void first with drinking, and sex, and then with religious fanaticism, but nothing seems to be working, and it is driving him crazy. He reacts to the love of his wife and the kindness of his employer with anxiety and fear.
One of the earliest books that Dick ever wrote, and the only novel that has never been published, Voices from the Street is the story of Hadley's descent into depression and madness, and out the other side.
Most known in his lifetime as a science fiction writer, Philip K. Dick is growing in reputation as an American writer whose powerful vision is an ironic reflection of the present. This novel completes the publication of his canon.

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Publisher: Tor Books (November 13, 2007)
Publication Date: November 13, 2007
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Language: English
ASIN: B000Q9ISPY
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful

Quietly chilling, perhaps his best "writing"

By Lonson E. Armstrong on February 10, 2007

Format: Hardcover

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this novel, though I have to say it has disturbing moments (some may not "enjoy" being disturbed in reading, I have to say that I do).

I found myself both identifying with and repelled from Stuart Hadley, the centerpiece character in the novel. This created moments of reading the novel that were surprising and moving. Though the overall tone of the novel is dark, and much of Dick's characteristic humor is not as overtly drawn as in other novels, the subject matter will interest fans of his work, especially fans of his posthumously published "mainstream" novels. (Mainstream? Hardly. That was the problem for publishers!)

My guess is that this was written in the Point Reyes Station period, around "The Man in the High Castle" and "The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike" (maybe this should be titled "The Man who Was So Afraid to Risk" or some similar title!) The writing I feel is a superb example of what Dick was capable of creating with patience and passion. Descriptive passages evoke sudden moods, action sequences race or crawl appropriately with swift shifts that jar and disturb. I am not sure if there was much editorial revision or intervention at play in this manuscript, I suspect perhaps not, and it may well be better for it. It seems to take just the right path and pace to unfold.

Recommended for Philip K. Dick fans. I view it (right at this moment) as one of his best. (Scandalous?)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

Captivating

By Amazon Customer on June 3, 2007

Format: Hardcover

The characters are almost uniformly annoying; there were many points in the book where I wanted to throttle one of them. It's a depressing story with a depressing ending.

Nonetheless, this was a captivating book, quite well written. Watching these nuanced characters try to make a buck, try to figure out the world, try to figure themselves out, was fascinating. I would recommend it to Philip K. Dick fans and to others. I don't think I'd put this book among Dick's absolute best, but it is quite good.

(In case someone reading this thinks PKD only wrote science fiction: that's not the case. He wrote a number of books that are not even remotely science fiction, and this is one of them.)

Early in the book there are various anti-Semitic and racist comments that I found jarring. I initially dismissed them as products of the time. They turned out to be precursors to important plot points. Lots of issues are explored, agonized over. Few if any are resolved. The book stimulated a lot of confusing thought for me, part of what I really liked about it.

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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful

Sad Story About Sad People

By Louis N. Gruber VINE VOICE on May 2, 2007

Format: Hardcover

Stuart Hadley is a nice-looking young TV salesman who hates his job and everything else. Jim Fergesson is the owner of the store where Stuart works. Ellen is Stuart's long suffering wife. A number of other characters buzz in and out of Stuart's life, as he grows increasingly dissatisfied, yearning for something he can't name. For a brief time he thinks he's found the answer in a millenial Christian cult, but that doesn't last long. Stuart treats the people in his life abominably. Eventually he flames out in an orgy of violent, self-destructive rage. In the last chapter, after an enforced period of psychiatric treatment, Stuart is just beginning to get a grip. He's badly injured, but for the first time he is content to work on small, realistic goals.

There's not much more to say about the plot. There are many characters, all terribly flawed and with few redeeming features. The author seems to have little affection for any of the characters and it was hard for this reader to like them either.

Apparently this is one of PKD's early novels, never published in his lifetime, and now available to the public for the first time. I could see why it wasn't published earlier. Except for the author's well-deserved fame, it would never be published now. It's poorly written, loaded with cliches, bogged down in long, rambling conversations that are hard to believe, one-dimensional characters without depth, and a lead character who inspires little empathic response from the reader. Why is he so unhappy? Why does he whine so much? Still, there are flashes of the great author's later brilliance. And powerful descriptions of the time, the place, and the ambience. I kept reading, hoping things would get better, and eventually, in the last few pages, they did. Sort of. If you're a PKD fan, you might want this one to complete your collection. Reviewed by Louis N. Gruber.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful

Brilliant, disturbing -this man was a great writer.

By Joseph Davis on February 26, 2008

Format: Hardcover

I've been reading P.K. Dick since 1975. I read his 'Confessions of A Crap Artist' in the late 1970s and loved it, but thought it was more or less a kind of one-off mainstream novel. And now we have 'Voices From the Street', 'Humpty Dumpty In Oakland', and 'In Milton Lumky Territory', the last two of which I haven't yet read. One might hope this particular posthumous Dickien mainstream vault was bottomless because the stuff is so good, however the introduction to 'Voices' seems to indicate that this novel is it, the last one. Too bad. This is a brilliant book. Not perfect by any means, but withering and harrowing in its honest and uncompromising points of view, devastating in its portrayal of America, that supposed materialistic paradise, in the early 1950s. The writing is wonderful. The characters are fascinating, if anything but sympathetic, and it is impossible to predict exactly what is going to happen, although there is a definite aura of doom about the book from page one. The time and setting of the novel are evocative and even nostalgic in a perverse kind of way; you might think of it as a kind of subversive mid-20th Century West Coast time capsule. Just about everyone in the book is lost or floundering. The ones who haven't sold out and are clinging on grimly to cheap materialistic values take desperate lunges for that something missing in their lives, but they for the most part end up unhappier than the duller, more plodding majority. The most basic, simple human relationships don't seem to work. There is fear, hostility and outright hatred between races, and between those with differing political and religious beliefs. Violence seethes just below the surface. The whole society is sick. Maybe the whole world is sick.Read more ›

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like RCA, the electronics brand that reminds the narrator ...

Basically a novel about electronics, like RCA, the electronics brand that reminds the narrator of electronics from his/her past. Read more

Published 20 days ago by Sean Wiseman

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A look at California in 1952. No great ideas or memorable characters. Disturbing and erratic.

Published 6 months ago by Christine M Papson

Posthumously published.

An early nonscience fiction work by an author now famous for being a visionary writer of science fiction, Voices From the Street is a tough novel to get through. Read more

Published 20 months ago by Michael G.

An excellent and tragic observation of one man's struggle to find his...

Though Philip K. Dick is most widely known for his works of science fiction, Voices From the Street is a compelling read that remains a searing indictment of the American dream. Read more

Published on June 24, 2013 by William D. Hastings

A spolied little man..

Well in defense of this book, I couldn't finish it so maybe it ended better. I was about halfway through the book, or at least I read as far as when he started hurting his wife and... Read more

Published on August 31, 2009 by Daniel A. Scott

Street Hassle

It sounds like some sort of revolutionary manifesto. Actually, this title is a reference to a scene where one of the characters notes the sounds of machines and people passing by... Read more

Published on July 21, 2009 by benshlomo

A superb portrait of mental illness...

Based on some of the other reviews, I think a lot of people will miss the whole point of this novel. Read more

Published on September 7, 2008 by Superstar DJ

Quiet Desperation

The time is 1952, the place Oakland. Stuart Hadley lives a life of quiet desperation, putting in time as a salesman in an appliance store, marrying, having a child, putting his... Read more

Published on June 22, 2008 by Robert Carlberg

gutter noise

A reader who is not already a Philip K. Dick fan is unlikely to enjoy Voices From the Street. Publishers had plenty of good reasons to avoid this manuscript for the past 50 years. Read more

Published on May 31, 2008 by A. Marchant

getting published

It interests me how an author first gets published. There are so many instances of - in the end - profoundly successful writers having such a great deal of difficulty in getting a... Read more

Published on January 7, 2008 by A. G. Plumb

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