- Social life and customs, Fiction, Disc jockeys, Nineteen fifties
Set in San Francisco in 1956, The Broken Bubble traces the ups and downs and ins and outs of four characters who are not quite sure of the lives they're living. Jim Briskin, local radio DJ, his ex-wife Pat, the young married couple Art and Rachel Emmanual, all are acutely observed and sympathetically portrayed.
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Classical in form, intimate, character-led and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Philip K. Dick
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 251
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, Gollancz, Arbor House
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780586090664
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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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