- Fiction in English, Fiction, science fiction, general
Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dick's weirdest and most accomplished novels. Jack Isidore is a crap artist -- a collector of crackpot ideas (among other things, he believes that the earth is hallow and that sunlight has weight) and worthless objects, a man so grossly unequipped for real life that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to rescue him from it.
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- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Philip K. Dick, Peter Berkrot
- First published
- 1975
- Pages
- 252
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, distributed by Bookpeople, Brilliance Audio
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780547572499
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Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose published work during his lifetime was almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states. In his later works, Dick's thematic focus strongly reflected his personal interest in metaphysics and theology. He often drew upon his own life experiences and addressed the nature of drug abuse, paranoia and schizophrenia, and transcendental experiences in novels such as A Scanner Darkly and VALIS. Source and more information: [Wikipedia (EN)](http://en.wikipedia.org/
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