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In The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick's alternate history classic, the United States has lost World War II and subsequently been divided between the Germans in the east and the Japanese in the west. In this world, we meet characters like Frank Frink, a dealer of counterfeit Americana who is himself hiding his Jewish ancestry; Nobusuke Tagomi, the Japanese trade minister in San Francisco, unsure of his standing within the beauracracy and of...
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Library of America volume 173
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[2007]
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English
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"The great accomplishment of Philip K. Dick, in the words of editor Jonathan Lethem, was 'to turn the materials of American pulp-style science fiction into a vocabulary for a remarkably personal vision of paranoia and dislocation.' These four novels written in the 1960s--'The Man in the High Castle,' 'The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch,' 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' (source of the movie Blade Runner), and Ubik--are summits in Dick's career....
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