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Valis (Vintage)

By Philip K. Dick

Book information

Year
1991
ISBN
0679734465, 9780679734468
LCC
PS3554.I3 V35 1991
Open Library ID
OL1890656M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
618 kB (632388 bytes)
Pages
240\214
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Valis is the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being are The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. Valis is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime."The fact that what Dick is entertaining us about is reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation--this has escaped most critics. Nobody notices that we have our own homegrown Borges, and have had him for thirty years."--Ursula K. Le Guin, New Republic

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