Voices From the Street

Philip K. Dick

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Stuart Hadley is a radio electronics salesman in early 1950s Oakland, California. He has what many would consider the ideal life; a nice house, a pretty wife, a decent job with prospects for advancement, but he still feels unfulfilled. Something is missing from his life. Hadley is a restless young man—an artist, a dreamer, a screw-up. He reacts to the love of his wife and the kindness of his employer with anxiety and fear. He tries to fill his void first with drinking, and then with an affair, and finally with religious fanaticism, but nothing seems to be working, and it is driving him crazy.
 
Voices from the Street is the story of Hadley’s descent into depression and madness, and his emergence out the other side.

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Part One
Morning
 
Thursday morning, June 5, 1952, came bright and hot. Moist sunlight lay over stores and streets. Glittering from the lawns, the cold sprinkle of night steamed upward to the blue-glass sky. It was an early-morning sky; soon it would bake away and shrivel. An oppressive white haze would drift in from the Bay and hang lusterless over the world. But it was only eight thirty; the sky had two hours to live.
 
Jim Fergesson happily rolled down the windows of his Pontiac and, poking his elbow out, leaned to inhale vast lungfuls of damp summer-morning air.

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"It may be hard for some to accept that the same writer who recently snuck into the American canon as a visionary and paranoid pop surrealist also penned a half dozen or more proletarian-realist novels set in the California of the '50's and early '60's, the best of which occupy a region demarcated by Richard Yates on one side and Charles Willeford on another. But accept it." 
--Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude
 
“He reworks the territory of soured domesticity (à la Richard Yates and John Updike) in a working-class milieu anticipating Raymond Carver. Decades later, his oeuvre (like Philip Roth's) is lovingly enshrined in our national pantheon.” –LA Times on Voices from the Street
 
"Philip K. Dick was science fiction's prolific mind-blower." Entertainment Weekly
 
“Remarkable. . .echoes of Dick’s contemporaries such as Ralph Ellison, Richard Yates, Rod Serling, Raymond Chandler and early Kurt Vonnegut Jr. resonate, and a bonus exists in Dick’s impeccable eye for detail.”
--Publishers Weekly on Voices from the Street
 
“Well written, it is a welcome addition to its author's large and brilliant canon.”
--Booklist on Voices from the Street

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PHILIP K. DICK has had a number of movies based on his stories made, including the classic, Blade Runner. Prior to his death in 1982, Dick lived in California.

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Voices From the Street
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Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Books
November 2007
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ISBN: 9780765318213
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