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The Broken Bubble

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The Broken Bubble

By: Philip K. Dick
Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
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FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE AND DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?

Four people's lives intertwine and collide in this early novel from one of the SF greats.

San Francisco in the 1950s, a turning point in American culture: the rise of rock and roll and the teenage lifestyle. Jim Briskin is a disc jockey on radio KOIF. He's still in love with his ex-wife, Pat—even though she's about to marry someone else at the station—and she's vacillating between them. But when he takes her to visit the desperate household of two of his teenage fans, she seduces the boy into abandoning his pregnant wife—who then claims Jim as her protector and support.
And all around them the cultural upheaval of postwar American society is manifest, by teenage outcasts who have a remote-controlled Nazi automobile they use to bump into the rich kids' cars; by Thisbe Holt, the dancer who performs for conventioneers by stuffing herself inside a clear plastic bubble; by blaring used-car ads and the conflict between generations.

©1988 Philip K. Dick (P)2026 W. F. Howes Ltd
Adventure Classics Science Fiction
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