“A kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet.”
--_The New York Times
_“Remarkable. . .echoes of Dick’s contemporaries such as Ralph Ellison, Richard Yates, Rod Serling, Raymond Chandler and early Kurt Vonnegut Jr. resonate. . . . Dick fans will be in rapture.”
--_Publishers Weekly_ [boxed review] on Voices from the Street
Description:
From Publishers Weekly
First published in 1985 by a small press, this realist (read: not sci-fi) early novel from dystopian master Dick (1928–1982) bears the following introductory author's note: This is actually a very funny book, and a good one, too, in that the funny things that happen happen to real people who come alive. The ending is a happy one. What more can an author say? What more can he give? To which one answers indeed, and quickly turns to the adventures of protagonist Bruce Stevens as he drives into the Pacific Northwest—the sales territory of a Willy Lomanesque man named Milton Lumky—looking for wholesale typewriters. (May)
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Review
“A kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet.”
--_The New York Times
_“Remarkable. . .echoes of Dick’s contemporaries such as Ralph Ellison, Richard Yates, Rod Serling, Raymond Chandler and early Kurt Vonnegut Jr. resonate. . . . Dick fans will be in rapture.”
--_Publishers Weekly_ [boxed review] on Voices from the Street