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    The Broken Bubble
    The Broken Bubble
    The Broken Bubble
    Audiobook8 hours

    The Broken Bubble

    Written by Philip K. Dick

    Narrated by Nick Podehl

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    Briskin is suspended from his job for refusing to read a particularly repellant ad, while Art foolishly gets mixed up in a group of absurd would-be revolutionaries. As they all get entangled and not quite disentangled with each other, it becomes apparent they are seeking only – in typical Dick fashion – to live more or less happily - if not ever after, then at least for a while. Modest as it may seem, it is an ambition very difficult to achieve.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateDec 12, 2013
    ISBN9781455882021
    The Broken Bubble
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    Philip K. Dick

    Over a writing career that spanned three decades, PHILIP K. DICK (1928–1982) published 36 science fiction novels and 121 short stories in which he explored the essence of what makes man human and the dangers of centralized power. Toward the end of his life, his work turned to deeply personal, metaphysical questions concerning the nature of God. Eleven novels and short stories have been adapted to film, notably Blade Runner (based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly, as well as television's The Man in the High Castle. The recipient of critical acclaim and numerous awards throughout his career, including the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards, Dick was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2005, and between 2007 and 2009, the Library of America published a selection of his novels in three volumes. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.

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    • 4/5
      The lives of two couples intertwine in mid-50s California, learning important lessons about life
    • 3/5
      This early effort, written and set in San Francisco of the late '50's displays PKD's sincere concern for young,lost people in thrall to ignorance, advertising,negative family and peer influence, alcohol etc., etc. The hero, Jim Briskin, is a radio music host suspended from his job for offending an advertiser, a used car concern. Some trenchant satire of pornography provides the book its title. This was only published in 1988, 6 years after Dick's death, but still seems completely relevant, though radio has certainly lost some of its market share to TV and video games in the meantime. Dick's knowledge and understanding of classical music is a plus to readers like me.