In Milton Lumky Territory

In Milton Lumky Territory
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 076531696X
ISBN-13 : 9780765316967
Rating : 4/5 (967 Downloads)

Book Synopsis In Milton Lumky Territory by : Philip K. Dick

Download or read book In Milton Lumky Territory written by Philip K. Dick and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Novels of Philip K. Dick, Kim Stanley Robinson says that "In Milton Lumky Territory . . . is probably the best of Dick's realist novels aside from Confessions of a Crap Artist," and calls it a "bitter indictment of the effects of capitalism." Dick, on the other hand, in his forward, says "This is actually a very funny book, and a good one, too." Milton Lumky territory is both an area of the western USA and a psychic terrain: the world and world-view of the traveling salesman. The story takes place in Boise, Idaho, with some extraordinary long-distance driving sequences in which our hero (young Bruce Stevens) drives from Boise to San Francisco, to Reno, to Pocatello, to Seattle, and back to Boise in search of a good deal on some wholesale typewriters. He falls under the spell of an attractive older woman, and of Milton Lumky, a middle-aged paper salesman whose territory is the Northwest. And then Bruce and the others slowly sink into the whirlpool of Bruce's immature personal obsessions and misperceptions. A compassionate and ironic portrayal of three characters enmeshed in a sticky web of everyday events, who have a basic failure to communicate, In Milton Lumky Territory stands out among Dick's early works.


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